Word: plight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Soviets served notice that they will use their influence to frustrate Bonn's efforts to enjoy better relations with other Communist states until Bonn extends its desire for détente to Ulbricht's fiefdom. The West Berliners blame Russia as well as Ulbricht for their plight; an angry crowd of them marched on the Soviet memorial in the British sector, only to be turned away by bayonet-wielding Russian soldiers. Radio Moscow beamed some advice to West Berliners: "He who lives on an island must be friends with...
...workers' paradise across the Elbe in East Germany, where the old law has been abolished and the bakers' ovens glow all the long night. To remedy the West's plight, and despite East and West Germans' conflicts over Berlin, Hannoverian Businessman Hans-Joachim Ermeler, 45, reached across the Iron Curtain and asked East Berlin's Trade Commission if it would be interested in shipping 60,000 fresh Brötchen over the border each morning. The East Germans were indeed: the deal will net the Communist regime some $250,000 a year in hard-currency...
...sacrifices were voluntary. An acute coal shortage gripped New England in the harsh winter of 1917-18. Harvard undergraduates suffered numerous measures to conserve fuel, finding the New Lecture Hall padlocked, the Junior Dance indefinitely postponed, and Widener Library closed on Sundays--the plight with which the Class of '68 can best sympathize...
...mounts"-underwater slopes-charted along her great-circle route homeward that lie only 900 ft. below the surface. Retired Navy Captain Charles N. G. Hendrix, an old "pigboat" skipper who is now a professor of oceanography at the U.S. Naval Academy, likens such subsurface navigation to the plight of "a pilot flying over the Rocky Mountains without knowing how high the highest peaks are, where they are, or even if they exist. The great-circle track in the vicinity of the Azores has never been systematically surveyed in detail...
Indeed, much important reporting is done by writers who have taken on new identities to gain insight into the problems of others. Seldom has the American Negro's plight been as convincingly portrayed as in Black Like Me; its white author, John Howard Griffin, darkened his skin and spent a month passing as a black in the South...