Word: plight
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Died. Oliver Hazard Perry La Farge, 61, author, anthropologist and a descendant of the Founding Fathers, who devoted his life to the plight of the American Indian, eloquently presenting it first in his 1929 novel, Laughing Boy, then as longtime head of the Association on Indian Affairs, lobbying ceaselessly to win the Indians less fuzzy paternalism and more schools, medical care and opportunity; of pulmonary emphysema; in Albuquerque...
Professor Kaplan, Philosopher of Art, turned his departmental sign upside down for sesthetic effect. Professor Dietrichson, who teachers existentialism, thought the gesture a comment on the plight of modern philosophy...
...Louise Day Hicks, Chairman of the Boston School Committee, has shown an admirable, if tardy, sense of public responsibility in agreeing to meet with the education committee of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored people to discuss the plight of the Negro in Boston schools. The NAACP had vowed to march on School Committee offices if a meeting was not granted, and for the moment the Association has agreed to suspend all demonstrations...
That was the year the Brotherhood was founded. An Erie Railroad fireman was killed in a train wreck, and a railroading friend named Joshua Leach set about taking up a collection for the widow and the children. Leach was so distressed about the plight of the widow, left without funds, that he decided to form a firemen's life insurance association. The eleven original members called themselves Deer Park Lodge No. 1, took oaths and made up secret passwords. From that small beginning grew the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen (engineman is an old-fashioned word for fireman...
...they lose their job. Others, after a lifetime's residence in South Africa, find their wives "endorsed out" * under the new restrictions if the women were born outside South Africa. In western Cape Province alone, 500 men and women are now banished monthly. Even worse is the plight of some 5,800 nonwhites jailed in recent months as part of the government's antisabotage drive, which increased South Africa's prison population to a record of some 67,700 (out of a total population of 15 million...