Word: plight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Otter Uses. By no means all the thousands of patients at a hospital like Manteno are fit to live in the wards. At any one time, hundreds are hospitalized with every disease in the book. Their plight had long been a nightmare to Dr. William J. Gallagher. Chlorpromazine to him has seemed like the answer to a prayer. Agitated patients who previously could not be kept quiet without undesirably heavy doses of barbiturates now rest comfortably. And, more important, they stop resisting the medical or surgical treatment that they need. After operations, they allow surgical wounds to heal...
Last week Giorgio la Pira turned his attention to the plight of about 115 workers in the creaky Delle Cure Foundry on the outskirts of Florence, which makes pipe and other cast-iron products. Since it was started in 1933, in a dingy, damp building now 87 years old, the foundry has limped along, losing money most of the time. Its equipment is ancient and its labor force, since World War II, has always been too big. In 1952 the owners went bankrupt, automatically closing shop...
Most book-business insiders blame the shop owner himself for his plight. His chief drawback: no business sense. Among those who think so is Chicago's Carl Kroch, president of the largest independent bookstore in the U.S. Says Bookseller Kroch, who has just spent $500,000 on refurbishing his own flourishing Chicago store on Wabash Avenue: "Too many people-little old ladies-think bookselling is a nice thing, so they start off with too little capital and a tiny stock...
Announcement of the Band's plight has already brought several offers of help, including that of a freshman who volunteered to write a Texas-ranching uncle, trying to find a cow with a hide big enough for the drum heads...
...1930s, many a U.S. housewife without so much as a Cadillac to call her own wrung her hands in anguish over the plight of a pathetic, ten-year-old waif named Gloria Vanderbilt. Fatherless at two, Gloria was heir to a trust fund totaling some $3,000,000, and nobody seemed to love her for her wide-eyed, wispy self alone. In one of the most relentlessly publicized custody fights of all time, little Gloria's mother, the gadabout "big Gloria" Morgan Vanderbilt, and her aunt, the redoubtable, socialite art lover, Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, traded haymakers of innuendo...