Word: plight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...solution was found by Richard L. Purinton '52, pictured at left. A Moors Hall sophomore, Robin Hood Williams was quick to realize the plight of the undergraduate and rushed across the Square to practice for a possible Saturday morning...
Luks's picture of a toper hurtling headlong out of Carey's (see cut) was a case in point: the artist had given new zest to an already hackneyed theme by putting it in brutally simple terms and by contrasting the plight of the flailing drunk with that of his nerveless, serenely floating hat and stick. The artist was found dead in a Manhattan doorway in 1933; his art still hangs serene...
Difficult Years (Lopert), in the best tradition of the Italian postwar movie renaissance, shows the plight of ordinary people trying to survive the impact of overpowering events. Made by Luigi (To Live in Peace) Zampa, the least publicized of Italy's top three directors,* the film explores the effects of the last ten years of Fascist rule on a simple government clerk and his family in a Sicilian town...
...years, the Medical Service had grown mightily from a pipsqueak, penny-pinched outfit (five doctors for 20,000 men in 1775) into a veritable army of healers: 10,200 officers (doctors, dentists and nurses), some 25,000 enlisted Medical Corpsmen. But the nature of war and the hapless plight of the wounded, the agony of torn flesh and the superhuman burdens on the "medics" had not changed. From the Korean war zone, LIFE Staff Photographer Carl Mydans cabled...
...framework of the price support program, the plight of the farm workers can be alleviated. It should be made a condition that any farmer availing himself of the federal price support must adopt a farming program which includes, among other things, all-year-round farming activities through the raising of overlapping crops or combination of crops . . . Under the price support, it should be a must relationship between the employing farmer and the hired hand that the latter . . . be covered by the social security compensation insurance...