Word: plight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eighty years ago if a student collapsed in his room he could lie there and die before the University took any official notice of his plight. President Eliot's benevolence towards his undergraduates in instituting the elective program did not extend to providing for their health...
Seventy-six percent of the freshman class was interested enough in the plight of Peter S. Hearst and the pre-election tantrums of seven other candidates to elect them to the Freshman Smoker Committee...
...then to Midway Island. They traveled under false identification and flight numbers; over water, they were never more than 100 miles from a ship or another plane. During the fuel stops, nobody was allowed to get off. Beyond Midway, the press plane developed engine trouble. When it messaged its plight to Ike's plane, security permitted only a cold response of "message received." The press plane limped into Wake Island for repairs. Ike went on to Iwo Jima, landed in time for an evening pilgrimage to the Marine Corps' famed battle monument on Mount Suribachi...
Last week a five-man State Crime Commission opened public hearings in Manhattan on the plight of the waterfront. To lay a basis, the commission first cast its subpoena net into a school of neatly groomed waterfront businessmen-heads of stevedoring and shipping companies. In theory, these were the helpless victims in the domain of President Joe Ryan of the A.F.L.'s International Longshoremen's Association. In fact and testimony, most of the witnesses turned out to be men who would dangle a dollar on the end of a hook for either bait or payoff, whichever...
...runt that is never likely to make much of a pig-a sort of porcine Cinderella, in fact. But thanks to bottle feeding by a little girl, Wilbur waxes so stout that he is a cinch to become the farmer's Christmas dinner. Wilbur's hard plight-considered first too puny, then too appetizing to live-excites the pity of a spider, who spins over his sty such complimentary words as SOME PIG, TERRIFIC, RADIANT and HUMBLE. The farmer is so impressed by these magic signs that he spares Wilbur, who lives fattily ever after. Author White...