Word: plight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although Malia found that many people had listened to either the Voice of America or the BBC's foreign service, they were in general suspicious of them. Since they felt that the Voice greatly exaggerates the plight of the Russians--and this point they can check against their own experience--they tended to discount what it says about conditions outside of Russia as well. The simple and sophisticated people alike adopted the attitude that "Your radio lies, and so does ours." The BBC, while in this same general category, is more highly respected...
...whose plight uncovers compassion in Bang the Drum Slowly is Catcher Bruce Pearson. He is a baseball and football tramp. His near illiteracy was no handicap at a Southern university, but with the Mammoths, one of the New York big league teams, he is strictly a marginal player: a positive handicap to the pitcher, endowed only with a real passion for pasting the ball. Next to visiting prostitutes, Bruce's favorite off-diamond pastime is sitting at hotel windows and spitting into the street. What fascinates Bruce is the fact that, when spitting from on high...
...order of preference, the final suggestion--records at the new music library available until 10 p.m. and for outside use overnight--seems best. Because a music librarian will be in attendance anyway, the additional expense should be negligible. The plight of the student unable to fit his schedule into the workings of the business days is a serious one. Expenses or not, the records should be made available painlessly and within more liberal hours...
...cast had been held for some time before the curtain was due to rise, so that the players had ample opportunity to acquire a stock of artificial good cheer. When the curtain arose disclosing the 'picture'--hero on a tree, cast kneeling before him on the ground, their plight soon became evident. The hero fell headlong from the tree and lay prone upon the stage, and when rescue came, it was found that the chorus was sound asleep to a man. The curtain redescended immediately...
Seymour E. Harris '20, professor of Economics, yesterday advocated general tuition increases and a Federal Scholarship Program to ease the financial plight of U.S. colleges and universities. Harris criticized as "illogical" the present situation under which he said, even a person whose father earns $15,000 or $20,000 a year only pays part of the total cost to a college of his education...