Word: plight
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cambodian plight has stirred civilized men and women around the globe. Many Americans have a particularly keen sense of compassion about the world's latest tragedy. In part, that feeling is inspired by lingering memories of the long, unhappy involvement of the U.S. in Indochina. Beyond that there is the frustration of knowing that the catastrophe of Cambodia could be averted; that the food, the medical supplies and the will to help do exist. Only the cruel, baffling politics of Southeast Asia stand...
...unfortunately for Harvard and indicative of its plight this year, these teams appear fairly even on paper. The battle is for the cellar: Harvard at 1-6 (1-4 Ivy), riding a six-game losing streak against Penn at 0-7 (0-5 Ivy), losers in its last...
...poles,'' said Sasser at a press conference. ''The living, the dying and the dead were all together. The only noise to be heard was the cough of children with tuberculosis. There were emaciated people in the final stages of malnutrition." Danforth added that the plight of refugees at the Thai-Cambodian border "defies the imagination. What struck me was to spend hour after hour and see only starving children: babies so wrinkled they looked like wizened old men. There is no reason on earth why this dreadful situation must continue...
...underscores the sad state of Pol Pot's army, which in the area we visited, at least, is reduced to a few men too sick to move. If this is the fate of the troops, who presumably got priority in terms of food and medical treatment, imagine the plight of civilians who had to share the meager resources that were leftover...
...first election of a U.S. union chief to the board of such a large company may be a symbolic victory for labor, but it will not necessarily set a precedent. Chrysler's plight makes it unique, and this is not a deal that many other companies or other unions will want to accept in better times...