Word: plight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wonderful article concerning the plight of the left-handed person [Jan. 10]. A year ago several friends and I came to the same realization. The result was the formation of the L.A.W. Society: Left-Handers Against the World. We would like to mention two other discriminatory practices perpetrated on left-handed students. One is the curse of the spiral notebook, which is bound on the left side. Designed for the comfort and ease of the right-handed person, it is a cause of genuine pain and grief to thousands of students everywhere. The second is the fact that most college...
...Agatha Christie and Erie Stanley Gardner, William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway. Norman Raine's Tugboat Annie eternally beat rival Captain Bullwinkle to salvage jobs in Puget Sound; C. S. Forester's Midshipman (or Captain, or Commodore) Hornblower managed to leave himself in such parlous plight at the end of each installment that Post readers could not wait to get at next week's issue. Lorimer paid beautifully: $6,000 for a short story, $60,000 for a serial...
...most articulate advocate is Abba S. Eban, who as Foreign Minister has the task of explaining his country's actions to the world. Last week, in an exclusive interview with TIME Correspondent John Shaw, Eban reflected on the reasons and possible solutions for Israel's present plight...
...plight of the Pueblo had also become a symbol for all that is tawdry and cruel in the human spirit. On a Christmas Eve when men were making their first try for the moon, the circumstances of the crew's release quenched any euphoria about changed human nature. The depressing implications of a diplomatic world where pre-denied confessions are used and accepted were as great as the humanitarian cheer over the crew's release...
...Nigerians are fearful that arms will flow into Biafra under the cover of relief shipments and therefore insist that aid be shipped in under their supervision. The Biafrans reject such terms because they fear foul play by the federals. The U.S. has been distressed by the Biafrans' plight, but it wants to see Nigeria survive as a unified nation; so Washington has hung back from overt aid. U.S. Government relief-$17 million to date-has been channeled through private and religious organizations...