Word: plight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Correspondent Hobbing asked a group of them what they wanted, the answers came fast. "Water, tools, seed, schools, doctors." And they know, as their fathers did not, how their ragged plight looks to the rest of the world. When Hobbing asked a group of peasants if they had ever been to a movie, they laughed. Said one: "Why should we? Aren't we show enough ourselves...
After analyzing their population trends, more than half the towns found they would have to do some building. Farmington, for instance. decided it needed 18 new classrooms. East Haddam set out to build a new high school. To advertise its own plight, Stamford, which has hundreds more pupils than it has proper facilities for, put on a public mock trial: the People v. Miss Double Sessions...
...responsibility toward Korea's refugees, for it had held out to them, at least implicitly, the promise of protection from the Reds. Yet the U.S., itself in a desperate military plight in Korea, could scarcely do more to help the refugees. No one knew what was to become of them if & when the U.N. line once more shrank to the narrow Pusan perimeter-or the U.N. forces were forced out of Korea altogether. Said Eighth Army Commander Matthew B. Ridgway, of the refugees' plight: "Perhaps the greatest tragedy to which Asia has ever been subjected in the course...
Ibsen, whose own uncompromising plays had been harshly excoriated,, wrote much of his own emotion into Dr. Stock-mann. In Stockmann's plight he saw vindicated his distrust of majorities, his feeling that the sheep can be as dangerous as the wolves. "The minority," he wrote to Critic Georg Brandes while working on An Enemy, "is always right." Like Stock-mann, Ibsen would not be silenced; like Stockmann, he accepted almost exultantly the loneliness of leadership...
Charlie Ross, a good, painstaking reporter, had won a Pulitzer Prize himself for his 1932 series on "The Country's Plight-What can be done about it?"-a scholarly, thoughtful and fair-minded examination of the Depression and the remedies the Hoover administration was applying. In 1934, Ross went back to St. Louis to boss the P-D's editorial page. But he was too good a reporter to be a brilliant editorial writer; his editorials were long on balance and facts, short on opinion. In 1939 he was back in Washington again as contributing editor...