Word: plight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the Federal Government reshuffled its table of organization in an attempt to do something about the plight of the Indians. It transferred responsibility for their health from the Bureau of Indian Affairs, in the Department of the Interior, to the U.S. Public Health Service, in the Department of Health. Education and Welfare. This might well be stronger medicine than it looks. The main trouble with the old setup was that doctors and nurses were hard to get for the Indians' 56 scattered hospitals and 21 health centers. With rare exceptions the buildings were old and ramshackle...
...Recently, many outstanding Americans have been much concerned-and justifiably-with inroads on the constitutional privileges of persons questioned about subversive activities. But concern with such problems, usually those of fairly prominent persons, should not blind one to the less dramatic, less-publicized plight of humble, inconspicuous men (like Caminito) when unconstitutionally victimized by officialdom...
...Patrón. Vicos' plight was ancient. Spanish conquistadores reduced the Inca population there (and all along the high Andes) to feudal serfdom; with independence from Spain, Peru had merely converted the fief into government property leased at about $800 a year to patrones, who got the Indian workers along with the land. The deadening centuries had stripped the Indians of all their skills, pleasures, and arts, and even of the imagination to conceive of a happier...
...help with a noticeable sum . . . Unfortunately, that good man died two years ago and my situation has become extremely critical." Then Farouk asked his interviewer for introductions to be arranged with some Italian tycoons who might give him a job. A titled industrialist was apprised of Farouk's plight, thought it over, decided that he had "no suitable position . . . for His Majesty." Said Farouk sadly: "I thought so. Thank you just the same...
...more militant fashion. Its monthly magazine, the Harvard Communist, was issued from an anonymous post office box in Boston. Besides featuring the current party line in its columns, the magazine took an active interest in winning converts from among the most susceptible, the underdog. It drew attention to the plight of the commuters who, in the days before Dudley, still had to eat lunch in a crowded room in Phillips Brooks House...