Word: plight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University made its first step to relieve the plight of married graduate students yesterday when it took title to the Irving Apartments, 28-34 Irving St., which it will use for married student apartments...
...whole thing a frame-up to hurt her Frank. Frank himself hid under an assumed name in a Hollywood apartment until the cops tracked him down. Then he scarcely grieved over his dead wife and unborn child. But he was shocked and shaken by his mother's plight. Said he: "I could never recall mother doing anything cruel. She would have to be insane to be linked into...
...Cuba's people. In Oriente the civil war moved the Roman Catholic Church to issue its own sad communique last week. Said Santiago Archbishop Enrique Pérez Serantes: "We have entered a new and horrible phase-hunger produced by war. Christian hearts cannot be unmoved by the plight of nearly all our towns and villages, filling with victims of hunger and caught in the path of death...
...that matter, the second half of J.B. rather lacks a strong pulse. So long as J.B. is being struck down, J.B. is theatrically vibrant. But once he lies on the ground crying out why, the problem arises of giving utterance the effect of action. J.B.'s plight smacks, in dramatic terms, of the kind of situation-"in which there is everything to be endured, nothing to be done"-that Matthew Arnold held ill-fitted for poetic narrative...
Shortly before the downy blanket of winter is drawn up snugly over the countryside, the New York Times publishes a survey of that city's Hundred Neediest Cases. For several pages it details woeful tale after woeful tale, the plight of an "Overburdened Girl" or "Courageous Grandmother" unfolding in full tragedy...