Word: plight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Irreparable" and "haphazard" are excellent words with which to describe the plight of U.S. Army reservists...
...millions of U.S. parents who don't own TV sets were whipsawed last week by full-page ads in 1,100 newspapers and sudsy commercials pouring from 250 radio stations. The American Television Dealers and Manufacturers Association was spending $2,000,000 to feature the sad plight of a winsome, pigtailed little girl blubbering on the shoulder of her pouting, sad-eyed brother. Warned the A.T.D.M.: "There are some things a son or daughter won't tell you ... Do you expect him to blurt out the truth-that he's really ashamed to be with the gang...
...reported that of the 100,000 children working in the factories many were permitted "to take home enough material to do extra work, after the regular ten-hour day, in order to earn more than the standard $3 per week." But Harper's could wax indignant about the plight of Vassar girls who had no clothes closets in their dormitory, and for whom Matthew Vassar had prescribed "two nails on the walls of their rooms, one for their school dress and one for their best dress...
...class. "They have a king.") The colleges themselves seldom have the money that other institutions have, and their professors-"the men who teach the teachers-rank close to the bottom of the prestige ladder in the academic world." The great universities and the liberal arts colleges consistently ignore their plight: "[They] have little right to criticize teachers' colleges for not doing well a job they themselves have hardly done...
...Harry Vaughan never fails the veterans," explained a member of the presentation party. "Why, the other day a colored [veteran] lost his shoes in a crap game. When General Vaughan learned of this man's plight, he called in his secretary and said, 'Nora, you take this $20 and you go get this man a pair of shoes . . .' That's why we gave Harry Vaughan the Distinguished Service Medal...