Word: plight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Those concerned with Turkey's sore plight wish that the Premier had shown himself as diligent in dealing with Turkey's deepening economic crisis as in dealing with his critics. They attribute much of this inconsistency to the man whom Menderes has chosen to direct economic affairs, a suave and resourceful protégé named Fatin Rustu Zorlu...
...hands alike. For Shigeko's was one of the stubborn cases suffering both contractions and keloid growths (in effect, tumors of scar tissue). Shigeko could not work. She had no hope of marriage. And at the Nagaragawa Methodist Church she met scores of other girls in like plight. The Reverend Kiyoshi Tanimoto called them "The Hiroshima Maidens...
...last year, Phillips Brooks House could boast that one out of every five undergraduates was contributing some of his time to the growing list of PBH activities. But despite this increase in student interest, the group's program faces damaging curtailment. As the plight of its Mental Hospitals Committee illustrates, PBH does not have a large enough annual income...
...mounted quickly to $103,600 by week's end and gave every promise of growing, as Rio's Jockey Club promised to donate all profits from a Sunday's racing, and Marta Rocha announced plans for a star-studded charity show. Meanwhile, as Bernadete's plight drew national attention, Brazilian Specialist Albert Coutinho offered to perform a drastic, last-chance operation involving removal of the right lung. Bernadete decided against it. "My death," she said, "will be more useful than my life. People will not forget...
...Thus the intellectuals "have become a separate, independent class, unattached to any center of socio-political authority, which itself is constantly changing. The society that intellectuals helped to emancipate has become self-assured, self-sufficient, with values of its own-values with which intellectuals often feel no identification . . . The plight of the intellectual, then, consists in his rootlessness...