Word: plight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...intends to fight alongside the usual political organizations on behalf of sound fiscal policies and stepped-up development. The Association took planks of fiscal orthodoxy-a balanced budget, a free-as-possible economy, safeguards for private capital-and nailed them together into a platform designed to ease the basic plight of Venezuela : that "more than half of the population do not manage to satisfy the minimum needs of a human being...
...unemployment rate had dropped, from 3.9% to 3.1%, for the first time in more than six months. Their jubilation was short-lived. In a rite of spring such as Britain has not witnessed since the Depression, more than 5,000 jobless workers converged on London to protest their plight, touching off an ugly, rock-throwing battle at the very door of Parliament...
...American Textile Manufacturers Institute near Miami last week hooted, hollered and stamped their agreement at this ominous warning from Robert Stevens, onetime Secretary of the Army under Eisenhower and now once again president of his family's big J.P. Stevens textile empire. Stevens was discussing the plight of the U.S. textile industry, and his words were directed at Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon, a beleaguered visitor to the convention. The textile men had hoped that Dillon would show up with at least part of the Kennedy Administration's long-promised relief program for textiles, gave him only grudging applause...
...captured Bing Crosby and went everywhere with him arm in arm. He posed with Heavyweight Champion Floyd Patterson, shook hands solemnly, and crowed: "So long, Floyd, be seein' you-in about two more years." He brushed off a Russian reporter who prodded him about the plight of U.S. Negroes: "Man, the U.S.A. is the best country in the world, counting yours. I ain't fighting off alligators and living in a mud hut." In the Olympic Village, he swarmed over foreign athletes, yelling "Say cheese!" while he snapped photos, swapped team badges, slapped backs, and winked at pretty...
They do define violence, however, as a measure to be used only in self defense, and justify it on the grounds that the only way to impress the majority of people in this country with the graveness of the Negroes' plight might be to threaten them. "The longer you work for Civil Rights, the more radical you become," a Negro leader mused recently. "You begin to realize that white people who are supposed to be on your side aren't even listening to what we say. They're content to let things remain as they are while they talk about...