Word: plight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...searches for means of escape, but can find none. Religion? A cardinal can only repeat banalities that have no relevance to Guido's plight. Filial loyality? His father is dead and he remembers how his selfish mother castigated him in his youth. A white-clad girl (Claudia Cardinele) tells him that she wants to bring order and cleanliness into his life; he finds her complete innocence no better than escapism. Finally he turns to thoughts of suicide (prompted by a diabolical character who springs up at his side several times during the film.) After he rejects self-destruction, he accepts...
...Tiger, which claim that the encroachments of the big lines could drive them out of business. Most of the big lines are losing money on their cargo operations, but these losses are balanced out by the current rich profits from passenger travel. The Civil Aeronautics Board, sympathetic to the plight of the all-cargo lines (which carry 30% of U.S. air freight), last week announced that it will come to their aid, most likely with route and rate concessions to keep them aloft...
...hearing strayed somewhat from its original purpose when Maher began discussing Cambridge's "sorry plight." "We have bookies, we have loan sharks, but we have 40 policemen taking $250,000 a year from illegally parked cars. It's a disgrace," he said...
...money to pay them with. Overcentralization of planning and overemphasis on heavy industry have reduced its already weak economy to a shambles. Poor harvests and poorer planning have forced it to import huge amounts of grain, thus dangerously depleting its foreign currency reserves. Typical of Poland's plight is the condition of its national airline, LOT, which is being gradually grounded by a bizarre price structure, antiquated equipment, and the failure of Russia to come through with promised modern planes...
...come to my main point. Mr. Brackman's reporting of my opinions on pregnany is irresponsible and contemptible. He says some garbage about my "callous lack of concern for the plight of the unloved illegitimate child and the unwed mother." These words are entirely out of his own mind or heart. Let me review the dialogue as it occurred. In my presentation, I quoted Alex Comfort's two commandments; "Do not exploit another's feelings, and do not cause an unwanted birth," I cautioned, however, that often middle-class people put off having children, or even compel abortions...