Word: plight
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WASHINGTON (AP)-Last month the following letter "to concerned citizens" about the plight of Army dogs reached the Denver Post...
...neighborly neutrality in a war fought by guerrillas and insurgents is a thankless one at best. That neither Cambodia nor Laos has yet stepped over the brink is partially due to the wits of Sihanouk and Souvanna. Perhaps the cagey Sihanouk has best summarized the plight of Southeast Asian neutralists. "I'll keep maneuvering as long as I have cards in my hand, first a little to the left and then a little to the right," he said. "And when I have no more cards to play, I'll stop...
They did, eventually, but not without a token show of concern for the plight of Sullivan and his football club. They had to. They were among the people who had disapproved of Harvard's refusal to loan its Stadium to the Patriots until a stadium could be built. Harvard was called arrogant, snobbish, and lacking in community interest. The councillors, at least for the record, had to prove that they weren't quite as harsh...
Secret Speech. Despite the lack of supporting evidence, however, what made last week's rumor so intriguing to Kremlinologists was the serious economic plight of the Soviet Union. Once before, a similar situation presaged a change of leadership; that was in 1964, when Nikita Khrushchev was ousted mainly because of economic troubles. Ever since Brezhnev's secret speech to the Central Committee in mid-December, which stressed grave economic problems, there has been speculation that a change might take place in the top leadership some time this year...
Larson, a husky personable California grower, admitted that there are both bad and good growers, but protested that the innocent growers, such as himself, are being hurt by the boycott without any remedy for their plight...