Word: plight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jean Duval's extreme plight is not typical in France today, but there still are thousands of French workers who, despite the country's ECA-financed recovery, are only slightly better off than Duval.* It is among their bitter ranks that the Communists win their votes. France's Communist Humanité promptly turned Duval's story into ready political capital. When readers of Le Monde started sending money and gifts to Duval, Humanité snorted: "The workers want no alms . . ." Later it added: "Plumber, take the gifts in money and kind that the grand bourgeois...