Word: plight
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...reviewer too has fallen prey to academic equivocation) in the current issue is "South African Jewry in Crisis" by Richard Suzman. Suzman, a junior in Social Relations, is, we are told, a transfer student from Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg. In an extremely lucid and understated style Suzman describes the plight of South African Jews caught up in the turbulent and often violent politics of that land...
...lady's plight, presumably the result of failing elastic or flailing hands, is a familiar one to harried J.N.R. officials. Their lost-and-found warehouses bulge with an inventory that would do a department store proud: 1,800,000 items, including 25,000 wristwatches, 310,000 umbrellas, 180,000 books, 400,000 pieces of clothing, ranging from garter belts to greatcoats, four urns containing human ashes (prayed over daily by reverent warehouse employees), an electric motor, one pinball machine, false teeth, and several false eyeballs. Only 15% of the items are reclaimed. By auctioning the rest, and by pocketing...
...publishers ignored their responsibility to the public when they chose to complete the press blackout. With three newspapers the city could at least keep an eye on its own government; and some of the economic effects of the strike, such as the slump in the entertainment business and the plight of 300 blind news-boys, would be mitigated...
...anti-union sentiment which now pervades even liberal circles in New York might be justified. But, in fact, the union's policy is the result of a feeling that while it is apparently faced with decimation of numbers and prestige, no one is paying any attention to its plight. It is convinced that the country is willing to abandon it to the fury of the second industrial revolution, and there is almost nothing in the government's record during the last decade to contradict it. The union is acting out of desperation, not spite...
Obviously because Matagulay is a dark-skinned Guamanian, his interrogators harped on the plight of the Negroes in the U.S. South. Again and again, he refused to sign anti-American propaganda documents, but finally, wracked with malaria and with his weight down from 185 to 145, he signed four statements, "when I believed I was at the end of my physical endurance." The documents, which Matagulay later had to read aloud so that the Viet Cong could record them on tape, bitterly attacked South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem and the U.S.'s support...