Word: plight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Warned by telephone, Evelyn fled to the house of Acción Democratica friends. After voluble discussions of her plight, they decided to move her to another house. Her new hosts were dismayingly hospitable. They gave parties and introduced the fugitive to their guests. Finally the underground supplied the information Evelyn needed: the Seguridad thought that she had information to spill, and would arrest her soon. After another long discussion, it was decided that she should seek asylum in the Chilean embassy...
Habitues of Sunday comic supplements are well aware of Pogo's plight. They know that for week atfer week he has had to listen to a story about Hadle & Gristle, furry godmommas, alligator-shaped princesses and whatnot. They also know that Pago tried to escape yesterday--pleading an appointment in Lapland but that he could not because his interlocutor his shirt to the seat...
...they are probably less aware of a very similar plight enmeshing a far less sympathetic figure, Newbold Morris who has been tied down by a bevy of Congressmen ever since he first trumpeted his President blessed intention to crush governmental corruption. These Congressmen have been telling him a long dull story about a handful of war surplus tankers whose trails were more tortuous than any Handle and Gristle have yet negotiated...
...only genuine issue of corruption left, then, is Newbold Morris' plight, and that need hardly concern the President. It involves, to be sure, the government's handling of war surplus material, but this is of far less political consequence than the Internal Revenue case. The only one who really stands to lose is Newbold Morris...
...captain at the fort, realizing his plight, got copies of the briefs, which the lawyers had never even shown Billings. Finding the Army's case "shot full of holes," he decided to apply for a writ of certiorari that would bring the situation before the United States Supreme Court...