Word: plight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Desperate Hours. In Detroit, after an auto drove into his service station, knocked a gas pump off its base, flattened an oil rack, bounced off two other pumps and drove off as one burst into flame, Attendant Floyd Bendel described his plight to police: "I had my hands full trying to keep from getting hit, burned alive or blown...
...boycott has surprised those who feel that the average southern Negro is a genial Aunt Jemima who "knows her place and respects her white folks." The Montgomery boycott is unique and significant. It points to a unmistakable trend in Dixie, an increasing awareness by the Negro of his plight and a determination to do something about it. Ironically, the Negroes in Montgomery have appropriated the same weapon which White Citizens' Councils have successfully employed in Mississippi and other states--economic strangulation. It works both ways...
...Even in the relaxed atmosphere of a south Georgia spring, however, Ike managed to get some work done. In between hunting and golfing, the President dealt decisively with the natural gas bill and wrestled with the question of arms shipments to the Middle East (see below). Concerned by the plight of Western European nations currently suffering one of their worst winters in recent years, Ike also announced that the U.S. stood ready to rush surplus agricultural commodities to the blizzard-stricken areas. Presumably, too, he was still thinking toward a decision on the second term issue. But as the week...
...pampered tyrant, the American farmer, is about to get his boots licked again by both political parties . . . the Democrats will set up a pious, baritone moan about the wretched plight of American agriculture. They will pass a farm-relief bill, loaded till its axles creak with rigid price supports, loans, 'conservation' payments, and other shabbily disguised subsidies. Then they will pray for the President to veto...
Some even more improbable things happen-among them Roger Moore, who as Henry II invariably wears the expression of a peevish raisin. For a time, the spectator is able to identify himself with the plight of Henry, who is said to be in mortal danger from a frightful bore. As things turn out, the script is not referring to Lana-just some wild pig. So the boar gores, but the gore bores, and the only consolation is offered by Sir Cedric Hardwicke, who is all dressed up like a wizard and looks sorry he did it, even for all that...