Word: plight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pettifogging legalisms of the congressional holdbacks could be most clearly seen in a statement issued by the Republican minority on the House Foreign Affairs Committee: "The plight of hundreds of millions of ill-fed and starving people throughout the world wrings our hearts. We believe that charity is the 'greatest thing in the world' but ... we do not believe that the Congress has the right, under our Constitution, to be charitable with money taken from the taxpayers without their consent...
...Scarf (Joseph Justman; United Artists) tackles another pressing problem: the plight of a multimillionaire's foster son (John Ireland) who escapes from a desert asylum for the criminal insane to find out whether he really committed the murder that put him there five years before. Mercedes McCambridge gamely turns up again, this time as a singing waitress who helps Ireland recover his lost memory and uncover the true culprit: a madman with a thriving business as a psychologist...
Chiang's Reformed Army. Many of the purge victims are intellectuals and former Nationalist officials who went over to the Communists two years ago in the hope that Mao Tse-tung would give them a "more liberal" government. The irony of their plight is that while the Communist government has been steadily disclosing itself to be a Communist government, Chiang Kai-shek's government on Formosa has made some progress toward 20th Century liberal polity...
Arthur Koestler has composed a morality play for our times. It is not a great drama, for no sense of tragedy can permeate the cardboard world of animated abstractions that the book contains. But as a moral tale for the despairing civilization of the West, it conveys well the plight of a people lost without faith...
Operation Disaster (J. Arthur Rank; Universal-International), like all submarine fiction, operates under a handicap. Jules Verne worked out most of the possibilities, and what he overlooked has been overworked since his time. Of all the variations, the plight of crewmen trapped 15 fathoms deep is probably the hardiest, and gets sensitive treatment in this British movie...