Word: plight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Valeriy Tarsis. The Ukrainian writer was railroaded into an insane asylum in 1962 when he published The Bluebottle, a vigorous attack on Soviet tyranny. Not surprisingly, he found that the other patients' only lunacy was to criticize Khrushchev's Russia, and now he voices the plight of his fellow inmates...
...Valeriy Tarsis. The Ukrainian writer was railroaded into an insane asylum in 1962 when he published The Bluebottle, a vigorous attack on Soviet tyranny. Not surprisingly, he found that the other patients' only lunacy was to criticize Khrushchev's Russia, and now he voices the plight of his fellow inmates...
...Labor government's aim is not only to wipe out Britain's trade deficit next year, but also to shock ordinary citizens, businessmen and labor into grasping the gravity of Britain's economic plight−and then reforming the featherbedding, from chairman to charwoman, that has helped to cause it. Prime Minister Harold Wilson recently warned that "complacent and prosperous manufacturers must get off their backsides," insisted that Britain can no longer tolerate "workers who inflict harm on production with go-slows or sporadic strikes in defiance of their own union." A government report has just accused...
...last-ditch effort aimed at getting help from federal authorities and dramatizing their plight even further, the residents announced that they were renting a bus to send a delegation today to confer with Robert Weaver, head of the federal Housing and Home Finance Agency, and other officials who might be able to help. And who was helping to set things up on the Washington end but another prime contender for the Saltonstall seat - Salty himself. "He's been really wonderful on this thing," says Goldin, "very helpful all along...
...overly ambitious development schemes, the country is struggling with the severest economic crisis in its eight-year history. Factories in Accra are closing for lack of materials, and queues of shoppers form in the streets every morning for scarce butter, milk, rice, sugar, salt and drugs. Aggravating the plight of the cocoa producers is the fact that world output will rise 25% this year, even though some angry workers have burned tons of it in the fields...