Word: plight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Secretary George Brown came face to face with De Gaulle. Wilson did most of the talking; De Gaulle asked the questions. The topics were predictable: Commonwealth trade (Britain's old trading partners would have to be given some concessions if Britain entered the market) Europe's technological plight, East-West relationships...
Domestic cutbacks by Johnson were questioned by Sens. Abraham A. Ribicoff D-Conn, who led an investigation into the plight of cities, and Joseph S. Clark, D.Pa., chairman of a subcommittee studying poverty...
...influenced postwar history. After the Truman Administration proposed the broad outlines of the Marshall Plan in June 1947, the Bostonian, then a Republican Congressman, proposed establishment of a House Special Select Committee on Foreign Aid and became its chairman. After two grueling months of surveying Western Europe's plight-Herter had directed the members to leave wives and tuxedos at home-the committee wrote a compelling, detailed report on what was needed to revive the prostrate continent. Above all, it was Herter's support and advocacy, along with Arthur Vandenberg's in the Senate, that forged...
Happy & Foamy. What really turns the paying guests out is a hint of romance. A case in point was the plight of Washington Schoolteacher Barbara Sobocinski, 30, who had met a young matador, Antonio Montes, in Spain last summer. Since then, it has been one impassioned letter after another from Antonio, his latest concluding: "The sun, the lover of Seville, never falters. If you long for the sun of Seville, why do you not come to see it at Christmas? Do you not long for me, as well...
...play. Full of inbred Southern prejudices, the girl calls the man a "nigger" and won't sit at the kitchen table with him. Full of the critical disdain of the educated, the man sarcastically mocks the girl's looks, grammar, vocabulary and dim wits. Gradually, their plight draws them together, and Playwright Westheimer achieves moments of mirth, poignance, compassion, and interracial rapport...