Word: plight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first of three disclosed incidents was last May, when Joseph Laniel was Premier. The second involved minutes of the Defense Committee meeting of June 28 (two weeks after Mendès-France had become Premier), at which the committee discussed the details of France's near-hopeless military plight in Indo-China. The Geneva Conference was then in progress, and the Communists' familiarity with the stark facts about France's position presumably allowed them to raise their asking price for a settlement. Mendès-France was at Geneva when he first heard of the leaks...
Margaret Sullivan, who struggled through the stage version of Samuel Taylors' concoction, can well sympathize with her plight. The story is a sorry garment indeed for leading ladies of such charm. If Miss Hepburn shows it off to better advantage, she has her tender years and coquettish personality to thank. Youth and coquettry are most appealing, but someone should commend to Miss Hepburn the additional value of acting. Almost everyone knows that she is a fine actress and a little proof would scotch the few contrary rumors...
...four hours with Ibáñez and his chief ministers, Holland got a restrained rundown on Chile's plight. They asked for no U.S. aid, but Chilean economists later told him that at November's hemisphere conference in Rio they will seek creation of a new development-loan bank and price supports for Latin American raw materials. Holland spoke up for broadened trade and private investments, and departed, soberly, for Bolivia...
Three weeks in office had given President João Café Filho the inside details he needed to judge Brazil's economic plight. Last week, in an emotion-choked broadcast over all the country's radio stations, he laid the somber facts on the line. Brazil is in a "dreadful crisis," and the public has to face it. Revelations, all dated from the regime of Getulio Vargas, whose suicide brought Café Filho to power...
...ruled Brazil for 18 of the past 24 years was toppled from office by the chiefs of the armed forces. Then, in a last, fateful act of Hitler-like defiance, he killed himself, leaving behind a bitter, eloquent testament heaping all blame for his failure-and Brazil's plight-on a wicked combination of his domestic ene mies and "international financial groups...