Word: plight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...free libraries and reading-rooms are ideal for forgetting hunger pangs, and are well patronized by Britons eager to strike up an interesting silence . . . Sympathizers with your plight will readily escort you on tours of gasworks, municipal offices and other near showplaces such as the British Transport Commission or any of the more liberal-minded Catchment [Drainage] Boards." A cheap half-day tour: "two building sites, waits in selected Mayfair bus-queues, a good look at Aldgate Pump...
...allies were properly appreciative of the seriousness of the U.S. plight, and in serious moments serious about it. But some found it hard at all times to keep an altogether straight face...
...British-French debacle at Suez. They did not even bother to join such U.N. voluntary agencies as the Food and Agriculture Organization and the Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees, which supports, among others, refugees from Hungary and Algeria. And despite the Russians' crocodile tears over the plight of Arab refugees, they contributed nothing whatever to their support; the U.S. paid $23 million...
...Reports (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). A report on the plight of the world's 15 million refugees, featuring scenes from Yul Brynner's recent European and Middle Eastern trip as a United Nations representative and including his interviews with Israeli Foreign Minister Golda Meir and Jordan's King Hussein...
...prelates. Anglican bishops, a Lutheran provost, an Ethiopian abbot, Franciscan monks, a Moslem sheik. But even the tensions of Israeli-Arab politics could not disturb the Primate. Before a crowd of 1,000 people, Bethlehem's Mayor Ayoub Musallam called on the archbishop to look carefully at the "plight and situation of the Arab refugees, our brethren who are still living in tents, huts and caves." Expertly sidestepping Ayoub's entreaty, Dr. Fisher answered: "What can I say? The troubles here and around the world have my deepest sympathy, but I have no power, no authority to right...