Word: plight
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Those who dislike the present Harvard system, however, point to plight of the few students who end up in a House they would rather have avoided. They add that the preference method also causes embarrassment, in some cases painfully acute, for the staff of an underapplied House...
Those who dislike the present Harvard system, however, point to plight of the few students who end up in a House they would rather have avoided. They add that the preference method also causes embarrassment, in some cases painfully acute, for the staff of an underapplied House...
...scandal-tainted) School Superintendent John J. Theobald leaves a witches' brew-860 schools starved for money and choked in red tape, 40,000 teachers newly unionized and still restless after a recent strike, 1,023,875 pupils, of whom one-third come from "culturally deprived homes." This plight moved New York to look beyond the Hudson and its own inbred school administration for the best qualified superintendent in the U.S. After scouring 56 major cities for four months, the searchers, led by Dean Francis Keppel of Harvard's Graduate School of Education, solidly recommended Gross...
...pair made their first break last month, spent two weeks in West Berlin's Marienfelde refugee camp pondering the plight of friends they left behind. Finally they slipped back to the canal shore and managed to get across again unseen. Scrambling onto the eastern bank, they cut the heavy apron of wire built by the Communists, made their way to a friend's house, where they soon collected five young men and four young women, including two married couples, and issued instructions for escape. One of the guides warned the tense little group: "Whoever loses his nerve, screams...
Meager are the rewards of virtue. Consider the plight of the UN, which, after years of the most generous admission policy, now finds itself out of seats: when Uganda is admitted this week, representatives of 110 nations will sit in a chamber originally designed...