Word: plight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...today. It is not surprising that in two elections the People of Kashmir have shown their determination to stay as an integral part of India. If the Indian leaders, like their Pakistani counterparts, had also misdirected the energies and frustrations of their people against another country, the political plight of India today would not have been too different from that of Pakistan. How long can a people be duped into laying the blame for all the misfortunes of Pakistan at the doors of India? As long as the Pakistani rulers do not see it fit to concentrate their own energies...
...organization to help the poor, during the war ran holiday camps for children who had been evacuated from the cities, and at night served in stealth as a chaplain with the Belgian resistance. Then, one day in 1949. he heard a lecture by a U.S. UNRRA official describing the plight of Europe's D.P.s. "It was such heartbreak," recalls Georges Pire, "such despair that it suddenly seemed to me that there was nothing I could do-except do everything I could to remedy all that...
...regular employees and nicked only 1% from their paychecks, OASI has expanded in both coverage and bite. Once Congress extended the system to farmers four years ago, it was plainly necessary for the Federal Government to make the Amish pay up: laws must apply to all alike. But the plight of the Amish was a footnote reminder that the welfare state has its victims as well as its beneficiaries, its cost in dwindling freedom as well as its payoff in expanded security...
...been a long time, and weeks of grinding had dulled my critical faculties to an all-time low. For this reason, the movie, a weak-kneed effort called Tides of Passion, met with my most enthusiastic response. I was touched by the plight of an unfortunate orphan--female--who, tossed into the heartless world with no protector, was buffeted by the fates only to find true love at last...
From his first (1938) book of long short stories to his latest novel, Richard Wright has given proof that anger can sometimes command more attention than art. He has one string to his bow: the shameful plight of the Negro in the white man's world. His writing is graceless, and he uses it with the subtlety of a lynching. It is doubtful for just how many of his fellow Negroes he speaks. But it is impossible to read him without sharing his indignation...