Word: plight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many authors of both sexes have bent their pens to the exploration of this subject, but none has bent so nearly double as Author de Beauvoir, or painted the plight of woman on so large a canvas. She begins her book, in time, with a discussion of Eve in the Garden of Eden and carries right on from there through recorded history to the age of Dr. Kinsey. By the time she has finished her biological, psychoanalytical and historical-materialist dissection of the situation of her sex, the warm aura of mystery that commonly surrounds woman has been reduced...
...University Administration stands indicted it seems to me, rather for the general approach to our financial plight than for any particular maneuver it has invented. Inflation has probably become perennial. Whether or not this is bad for the country at large it is obviously bad for endowed institutions. Therefore, the only honest solution is austerity. As long as we try to race the system by raising the tuition, we are being dishonest...
...peculiar plight he was in last week, Ralph Evinrude had only one explanation: "The boom was lowered." Evinrude, president of Outboard, Marine & Mfg. Co. (Evinrude, Johnson & Elto motors), had gone to what seemed a routine directors' meeting to elect four new members to the board, increasing it to nine. "That's all I thought we were going to do," he said. But, no sooner were the new members elected with the help of Evinrude's votes, than the board, by a vote of 6-3, fired President Evinrude. Installed in his place was J. G. Rayniak, executive...
...always an effort to hack through the tangle of generalities in State of the Union speeches to get to their specific proposals. President Eisenhower's is no exception. Phrases like "encourage foreign trade while preserving legitimate domestic industries" or pleas to shore-up farm prices while recognizing the plight of housewives, show that the President, for all his vigor, maintains in January his fence-sitting habits of last fall. But enough of the specifics gleaned from his speech, plus the republican election platform, show what will be the Administration's domestic policy for the next four years...
...bouncing from parliamentary inquiry to point of order, the votes were finally counted. Only seven Senators had voted to seat Morse and 81 had voted against him. This comeuppance was promptly interpreted as Republican "discipline," but the Democrats, whose presidential candidate Morse had supported, were more responsible for his plight than the G.O.P. Morse had insisted that he didn't want the Republicans to assign him to committees. Nevertheless, G.O.P. leaders at one point proposed that the Armed Services and Labor committees be enlarged to reseat Morse and to add another Republican, thus assuring G.O.P. control of all committees...