Word: plight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...glory that the Kopparberg brought Sweden, mining conditions were appalling. Sulphurous smoke blacked the huts of Falun and killed off all plant life for miles around. The workers' plight in the dark and sooty mines was so bad that a visitor in the 1700s wrote that "no theologian has ever been able to describe hell so frightfully." In the early 19th century, as iron began replacing copper in importance, Stora Kopparberg turned away from the riches of the copper mountain and began the diversification that has kept it alive and thriving...
...central Canada, urban voters who solidly backed the Liberals in the election last June. Diefenbaker's obvious last-ditch attempt to win the urban vote by promising urban development and redevelopment assistance will likely go unanswered. Social Credit leader Robert N. Thompson has summed up the Prime Minister's plight very succinctly: "Too little, too late...
Chess & Counterspies. Labyrinth takes place in a murky sort of mahogany Marienbad. Endless corridors and countless doors make the plight of a bridegroom who has lost his key and forgotten his room number on his wedding night seem hopeless indeed. As he and his bride flounder around with understandable impatience, a series of personages appear, each bearing-according to Menotti-a strong allegorical identity. An old man in a wheelchair, who represents The Past, lures the groom into a cobwebby conservatory filled with jungle plants to play a possibly symbolic game of chess. Another door leads him into a drab...
...listed two ways the corps could make such contributions. The first would be to increase the "visibility" of chronic problems which do not receive public notice, and therefore little public attention. He included in this group the plight of migrant workers, Indians, and the whole spectrum of evils publicized in Michael Harrington's The Other America, a recent account of poverty in this country...
...Williams, one of the sponsors of the Administration bill in Congress, has long been associated with the plight of migrant workers. Last weekend he and his staff initiated a miniature Service Corps of their own by traveling to Gun Springs, Va. to repair three shacks in that depressed area...