Word: plight
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sovan spoke, his claim was being contradicted by eyewitnesses who were driven to tears by the sight of famished Cambodian refugees trudging wearily across the border to the precarious safety of refugee camps in Thailand. Battered by war, famine and disease, the refugees' faces reflected the plight of a country that has become the Auschwitz of Asia...
PODHORETZ DROPS NAMES, and not always affectionately. He hates the politically nerveless and the overly cynical, but lands heaviest on the intellectual hypocrites, attacking, for example, Lillian Hellman, whose book Scoundrel Time defended Stalin and his crimes, while disgracefully comparing the plight of Eastern European dissidents to the bogus martyrdom of those who, under congressional questioning, evasively pleaded the fifth...
...United States not give up its well-intentioned relief efforts in the face of the Heng Samrin regime's rhetoric. Carter and Congress must do everything possible to get the relief through and to alert a sadly indifferent world to the carnage that has taken place and to the plight of the millions who are still living--but just barely--in a ruined Cambodia...
...would like an extra $2 billion to $2.5 billion for shipbuilding in 1980. This would buy two more attack submarines, one more destroyer armed with the devastatingly accurate AEGIS guided-missile weapons system, a landing ship for the Marines and two oilers. The oiler shortage typifies the Navy's plight. While at least 21 oilers are needed to keep the fleet steaming, only 16 are available and ten of these were commissioned before the end of World War II. Mines are also scarce, and torpedo stockpiles are so low that there are not even enough to arm all U.S. attack...
...Damara and some Hottentots in Africa, for example) who possess words only for numbers up to three, every larger quantity being simply expressed as "many." A fascination with the multiplicity of things, together with a quenchless scientific yen, pushed the main body of mankind, however, inevitably into its present plight-a time when so many stunning measurements are bandied about that numbers plunge in and out of the brain more like galaxies than pigeons...