Word: plight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since the Russians sallied past the stratosphere, and the American education lobbies learned that they could equate their own legitimate interests with the national defense, Americans have eyed the plight of the secondary schools. James Bryant Conant has completed his study. Parents berate their school boards for inadequately preparing their children for college...
Banda described to his screaming fans the plight of their brothers in Southern Rhodesia, where the whites keep the blacks in their place by a system of pass laws and curfew, and have shown a tendency to follow the apartheid spirit of South Africa. For the Central African Federation, 1960 is looming as the crucial year. Federal Prime Minister Sir Roy Welensky, a onetime locomotive driver, wants to be on the road toward independence within the British Commonwealth by then. Banda's greatest fear is to see Nyasaland dominated by apartheid-minded whites unrestrained by the more benign rule...
...step-daughter. I am not giving anything away in revealing this, because the Stepfather (Mr. Reinhardt) and Stepdaughter (Miss Landey) spend a good deal of time standing around chewing the fat about this scene before they ever get to playing it. Perhaps because every aspect of the plight of the Characters is so elaborately discussed, they seem not so much melodramatic as sordid--in spite of a haunting, Flying Dutchman quality in their eternal fixedness in agony. For good stretches of the long first act, before sordidity passes into ghastliness and thus takes on some interest, the effect is almost...
...favorite party game of U.S. baiting, Khrushchev attacked the U.S.'s "positions of strength" policy. Retorted U.S. Ambassador Riddleberger: "I had some personal experience with Soviet efforts to act from a position of strength. I was in Berlin during the blockade." Khrushchev switched to deploring the sad plight of the workers in the capitalist U.S. When Riddleberger countered that U.S. workers were in fact pretty well off, Khrushchev rumbled that Riddleberger had no connection with the working class. Replied the ambassador: "I have been a farm hand, bricklayer and house painter. I think I had just about as much...
Echoing the life and times of the nation, the ring of the telephone resounds through U.S. literature, theater, movies. It evokes laughs (Bells Are Ringing) from the plight of an answering-service operator who falls in love with a client, horror (Dial "M" for Murder) from a homicidal husband's attempt to lure his wife into an assassin's hands with a telephone ring, frustration (Menotti's The Telephone) from the dilemma of a lover whose girl constantly interrupts his proposal to answer the phone-until he rushes to a phone booth to propose...