Word: plight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Score. Exuberant as Adoula was over Tshombe's plight, there was not much for him to crow about. Even if Katanga is successfully reintegrated, he will still face the equally formidable problems of administrative incompetence, official corruption, army indiscipline and-worst of all-rivalries among the Congo's 200 tribes. The point was underlined in blood last week in Kasai province, where feuding tribesmen were at one another's throats over a border dispute. Natives kidnaped and reportedly ate two Belgian lumbermen, then began slaughtering one another in the town of Kakenge. Such gruesome incidents no longer...
...nearly 77) when he was able to leap over the administrative details and parochial interests of the papacy and confront the world as "the universal shepherd." Unlike his predecessor, the scholarly and aloof Pius XII, John lets his interests range far beyond the Catholic fold to embrace the fundamental plight of man in the modern world...
...nine children born to Joseph and Rose Kennedy, one is President of the U.S., but Daughter Rosemary, 44. has spent half of her life in a special nursing home because she is mentally retarded. The Kennedys used to think that Rosemary's plight was something to hide, but Old Joe finally decided. "It's best to bring these things out in the open." He lavishly endowed the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation, which has spent $17 million on care for the retarded and research into the causes of their handicap...
...tears of innocent children (and not a few adults) deprived of daily comics...the grim plight of subway riders forced to stare at each other on the long ride to work...the piercing cry of the hapless fishmonger with no newspaper in which to wrap his wares...such sufferings cannot go unrelieved at this Christmas season...
...fundamentally a positive one. It seeks to shock the White American from his insulated world of false satisfaction about what little has been done to alter-basically the Negro's human situation. It seeks also to shock him from his irresponsible stance of taking for granted the Negro's plight, and from his belief nothing really earthshaking will occur among Negroes if their reality is not transformed in the near future. In short, Baldwin's aggressive--yet humane and sensitive--definition of the Negro's relationship to American society endeavors to bring White American to a proper comprehension...