Word: plight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...public opinion. In a speech to Parliament, he used, for Nehru, harsh words in reply to the weeks of billingsgate that have poured from Peking's press and radio. Nehru was "greatly distressed" at Red China's brutal suppression of the Tibetan revolt and at the "hapless plight" of the Tibetan people. In answering the charge that the Dalai Lama was being held against his will at Mussoorie (TIME, May 4), he obliquely called the Red Chinese liars. "They have used the language of the cold war," said Nehru, "regardless of truth and propriety." Characteristically, Nehru regretted that...
...nine years Baldy has sought to depict the plight of the reasonable Southerner who, like himself, stands aghast between the extremists. He has, for example, shown two antagonists locked in mortal combat, one labeled "Reality," the other labeled "Tradition." The caption: "It's a tough fight, Ma!" Baldy put "Reality...
Good Old Days. So, last week, began a modern-day "March on Washington," arranged by the A.F.L.-C.I.O. to dramatize the plight of the nation's unemployed.* Actually, much of the impact had been taken away from the meeting by the highly encouraging employment figures for March, released only the day before by the Administration. They showed that unemployment fell by about 390.000 to 4,360,000, while employment climbed by 1,100,000 to 63.8 million. But that did not in the slightest diminish the decibel count of the 7,000 people (about half of them actually unemployed...
...this plight, Franco has looked abroad to the International Monetary Fund for an urgently needed loan. But an IMF team sent to investigate the Spanish economy is expected to report that before qualifying for a major loan Spain must agree to throw less money away on the building industry, devalue the peseta, eliminate multiple exchange rates, possibly open its doors to foreign investment...
...Hanson Baldwin at 56 still stands as ramrod stiff as when he graduated from Annapolis in 1924. He has been the Times's military analyst since 1937, won a Pulitzer Prize for his 1942 series on combat in the South Pacific that included the disclosure of the U.S. plight on Guadalcanal. Working his beat, Baldwin first came across Argus "some weeks" before the late August and early September tests, got together the outline of the project "without limitation...