Word: plight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...interesting to see some Republicans still blaming all the woes of the world on Yalta. Ever since the abortive resolution "blaming" Roosevelt and Truman for the plight of Eastern Europe, Senators who know something about foreign policy have realized that the "Yalta sellout" is nothing but campaign ballyhoo. Regrettably, other Senators, without the time or interest to learn the facts, have accepted the political slogan as gospel. It is a case of infatuation with one's own campaign oratory...
Author Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex [TIME, Feb. 23] sounds like a woman desperately in need of a manly man. She bemoans woman's sad and pitiful plight, but forgets that it was a woman who lost Mark Antony the world, laid old Troy in ashes, clipped Samson's mighty locks, and has been clipping men ever since. She says "woman's uplift has barely begun." Speaking as a lone man who grew up in a family of aunts, grandmothers, great-grandmothers, mothers, and now a wife and daughter, I can tell De Beauvoir...
...generally so smug about the "plight of women?" It truly exists. If men did not oppress women, there would need be no feminists...
Stalin's right arm and leg were paralyzed, showing that the stroke was in the left side of the brain. His power of speech disappeared in the few moments before he lapsed into unconsciousness. From the moment they reached his side, the doctors knew that his plight was critical. They needed no delicate instruments to note that his breathing was highly irregular, with long pauses between rapid spells. His pulse rate shot up to 120, and this too was irregular. His blood pressure of 220 over 120 was high (though many people live for years with such readings). More...
...stature of an "existent." But woman's uplift has barely begun. Far from being an existent, she is not even a human being yet. She is a "lie" and a "treason" to her own reality, because she is "in large part man's invention." Her plight in a man-made world is summed up in two of Author de Beauvoir's characteristically sweeping statements: 1) "The most sympathetic of men never fully comprehend woman's concrete situation," and 2) "The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women...