Word: plight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...group for whom most can be done, and least is now being done, according to Putnam and Hood, are a majority of the brain-injury victims, i.e., those who have been crippled by such things as blows, encephalitis, or a sustained high fever in infancy. Their plight is often worse, in a way, than that of the mentally retarded, because they know they are different and yet cannot help their failures and seizures...
Bricks & Mortar. The American most concerned with Korea's economic plight is 53-year-old C. (for Clinton) Tyler Wood, a Princeton man, onetime Wall Street broker, State Department aide and now economic coordinator between the U.S., the U.N. and the ROK government. Wood is no economic czar. Says he: "Korea is a sovereign nation and we've got to remember that all the time...
...stick-slim actress with huge, limpid eyes and a heart-shaped face was teaching U.S. moviegoers last week a lesson they already knew and loved -i.e., that the life of a princess is not a happy one. Balcony bobby-soxers for years have shed pleasant tears at the plight of trapped royalty, and breathed a happy sigh of relief when at last the royal one escapes into a commoner's arms (Olivia de Havilland and a handsome pilot in 1943's Princess O'Rourke; Vera-Ellen and a tap-dancing reporter in 1953's Call...
...unions were trying to force a reconvening of the National Assembly-the Socialists and Catholics in real hope of a solution, or at least a graceful pretext for going back to work, the Communists in hope of a brawl that would worsen the nation's plight. Laniel was conferring with the Force Ouvrière and Catholic leaders, but not with the Reds...
...problem of a $175,000 executive who is able to keep only $48,000 in take-home pay is not one calculated to arouse the sympathy of the average wage-earner. And the well-heeled executive, describing his unhappy plight in the Waldorf-Astoria bar or on the beach at Miami, is likely as not writing his entertainment or his vacation off on the company's expense account. But the problem of executive pay is nonetheless a real one to executives who are taking on greatly increased responsibilities with little or nothing to show for their efforts...