Word: plight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Colonel escapes censure for bad taste by taking attention away from the common plight of the two central characters, shifting it to their conflicting philosophies. "In life, there are always two possibilities," asserts Jacobowsky, to which the Colonel replies, "There is only one--to die with honor...
...pressure." Rules, he warns, are made not as the player's master, but as servant. And despite sneers that he is a slave to his own system, few players can break the rules faster and more effectively than Charles Goren. Thus Goren once found himself in this tournament plight...
...beef of steers fattened with the aid of a female hormonal substance, stilbestrol. The Tribuna do Povo reported that husky Sebastiao de Lima Serra of Aragatuba, 500 miles north of Rio, had suffered a "veritable metamorphosis, turning into a docile, falsetto-voiced creature of strange customs." Serra blamed his plight on the hormone-treated beef. Rio's state government proclaimed: "The necessary measures will be taken to end this evil...
...enter the jet age? "Pete" Quesada's answer: Not so good. Though airlines are committed to spend $4 billion for new jet equipment by 1962, they have run into sliding earnings and difficulties in financing their purchases. Ike asked for a special report on the airlines' plight. Last week Quesada sent him a 44-page document prepared by Harvard Business School Economist Paul Cherington. Among its top conclusions: the airlines need a fare hike-and quickly...
...networks' plight is bad, and has probably got worse in recent weeks. Nervous sponsors have canceled traditional programs or shifted their ad budgets to other media. Series-type programs (which require a chunk of network time each week) are being dropped in favor of one-shot spectaculars (which occupy only 60-90 minutes a month). Some of TV's most prestigious shows have got the ax, including Edward R. Murrow's See It Now, Climax!, Wide, Wide World, Suspicion, Kraft Theater...