Word: plight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pennsylvania's deficiencies, the fact is that most state governments are no better suited to deal with the complexities of modern U.S. life (among the exceptions are the most populous states, California and New York), and a number are much worse off. Though the plight of the nation's cities is more dramatic this summer, the states constitute a grave weakness in the U.S. system...
Family Allowances. His second solution to the plight of the urban poor is to give allowances to families with children. "We are the only industrial democracy in the world," he told a Sen ate subcommittee last winter, "that does not have a family or children's allowance. And we are the only industrial democracy in the world whose streets are filled with rioters each summer...
...another, caught up in ethnic feuds. Above all, the American labor movement was the most violent in the world. From the 1870s to the 1930s, bloody battles between strikers and company cops or state militia were frequent. Labor leaders often deliberately used violence to dramatize the workers' plight-and, in time, they succeeded. On the fringes of the movement were some odd secret organizations, including the Molly Maguires, a band of Pennsylvania miners who assassinated fellow workers and bosses alike in an attempt to win better pay and working conditions. The Wobblies (Industrial Workers of the World) sang...
Whatever their sympathies for Britain's financial plight, her allies in the Far East were troubled by the new policy. The U.S., Australia and New Zealand are worried that they will have to assume the obligations that Britain is abandoning. President Johnson seems to believe that the British can be dissuaded from a headlong retreat. He said that he was "very hopeful that the British would maintain their interest in that part of the world." Secretary of State Rusk publicly regretted Britain's decision, but he warned pointedly that aggressors in Asia "should take no comfort" from...
...artificially high wool price that New Zealand maintains with its vast government price-support scheme is mostly to blame for the country's present plight. Last season the government wool commission, which protects domestic sheepmen, had to buy and store 650,000 bales, a third of the total output, at 47? per lb.-80 higher than the average open-market price for Argentine wool. Buyers from abroad were unwilling to pay the New Zealand price, which they considered outrageous...