Word: plight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...maids themselves who impressed their plight upon the Administration, but rather the probing eye of the Boston press. In 1930, the University fired 20 scrub women rather than give them a two-cent an hour raise. Coming on the same day as the University received a five million dollar unrestricted donation, the act gave the University some two solid months of the worst publicity it has ever received. The Boston world looked at these women scrubbing the marble floors of Widener on their hands and knees for starvation wages and called the picture like a chapter from Dickens. The Post...
...could not enter the country without a visa. So they would have to go outside the country, to Bermuda or Cuba, and receive visas. Not enthusiastic about this proposition, Mr. and Mrs. Davis and the two crewmen dickered with Immigration until finally a sympathetic official informed Washington of their plight, and Washington approved their entrance...
...knew who wrote for The Communist. Articles were signed simply "by Max" or "by John". Letters, also unsigned, were addressed "Dear Comrade." Besides purveying the party line on national and world events, the Communist took active interest in the underdog at the University. It first drew attention to the plight of the commuters, who at the time are their lunches in a crowded, dirty room in Phillips Brooks House. In an exhaustive appraisal of every course and every instructor in the English department, the magazine concluded the staff's main trouble was that it didn't criticize "class literature...
Summarizing, Bishop Lilje compares the breakdown of the "optimistic world view" of the 19th century with the fall of the medieval world order in Luther's time. He writes: "His plight, like ours, is a profound sense of the uncertainty of human existence. We are not secure in this world, but in constant peril ... All human roads seek to avoid these deep valleys. It was Luther's experience that God purposely leads us through them in order to make us receptive to His Word...
Playwright Laurents (Home of the Brave, The Bird Cage) is the latest of many writers to exhibit two colliding traditions of love. He wisely seems to suggest that there is something to be said on both sides, though his heroine's plight with her merchant of Venice seems a bit extreme, a little like the setup for an Ethel Merman song. But Cuckoo offers some sound enough comments, and some effective scenes. And there is the opportunity for Actress Booth to display her fine gifts for comedy and pathos...