Word: plight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That pleased the Dutch. Yet the strongest sentimental and political ties could not alter the economic plight of the colony which they got from the British in 1667 in a rough exchange for Manhattan. Its once-rich sugar plantations are nearly ruined; most of its Negroes would rather starve in Paramaribo than work in the fields. Only the rice-raising Javanese and East Indians, imported as indentured labor in the 19th Century, have made a go of it in the coastal swamps; they now number nearly half the colony's 208,000 population...
...interest on endowments, the profession must look to the government for financial support. The compromise proposed by the government is a sound one. The AMA's fear merely reflects a pre-occupation with its own security as a powerful organization rather than a genuine concern for the plight of the nation's medical schools...
...registered parties in Greece last week. There was the National Salvation Party, whose emblem was a skyscraper apartment house with St. Constantine and his mother, St. Helena, peeping out of the top window. Its platform: "Death and scorn to the wicked and incompetent who have brought Hellas to this plight." There was the Greek Orthodox Party, whose leader exhibited his own photograph in white pleated national dress, with the motto, "Love is the mother of happiness." Among the rest were the National Rebirth Party, the Motorists' Party, and the Large Working Families Party...
...elaborately meaningless, but they are sometimes decidedly clever. The skits and satiric ditties vary enormously. Many need the ax, many others the pruning knife, and even the best could use manicure scissors. But there are funny things in a take-off of a book-and-author luncheon, the plight of a man who has sworn off cigarettes, and a parody of a sentimental French chanteuse. Assisting-usually at their peril-are Comics David Burns and Jack Gilford, and Lenore (Junior Miss) Lonergan. Now grown up, Actress Lonergan should make a good comedienne when she gets the right comedy...
...CalTech's annual report, President DuBridge pins much of the blame for the sad plight of basic research on a "confused" policy of the Federal Government, which has left "the support of science . . . largely with those [Government] agencies whose primary functions are military." As a result, basic science is fighting a losing battle for funds, and "there is increasing pressure to extend to basic science the secrecy restrictions which necessarily pervade military weapon development . . . An excellent way to stifle science is to cut off its sources of support. A still better way is to suppress its freedom...