Word: plight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After a five-day recess, Prosecutor Jiang Wen condemned Mme. Mao's defense as "a vicious slander and calumny of Chairman Mao Tse-tung." Significantly, the prosecutor did acknowledge that all people in China "are very clear that Chairman Mao was responsible for their plight during the Cultural Revolution"-the sole official recognition of Mao's mistakes made in the trial. But the prosecutor hastily added that Mao could not have ordered his wife to commit such crimes as the attacks on high state and party officials...
...politics." Is the memory of the scientific community so short that Dr. Andrei Sakharov has been forgotten already? Dr. Sakharov has been and continues to be censured and persecuted by the very Academy these two scientists represent, and further, these scientists directly contributed to Dr. Sakharov's present plight through their involvement in the Academy's voting process which condemned Dr. Sakharov...
Boomtown officials find little sympathy in Washington for their plight. Washington is providing about $50 million a year to help towns disrupted by coal and uranium mining build new sewers, water lines and schools and hospitals. Westerners claim the funds are not enough, but Administration officials blame that on Congress. "Congress is still dominated by the East," says Paul Petzrick, director of the Office of Shale Resource Applications of the Department of Energy...
...which has members in three different concentration camps. Says Ludmilla Thorne, director of the Center for Appeals for Freedom in New York City: "The emergence of this Helsinki unit is a sign of the amazing tenacity of the opposition." The Watch group has even issued five reports on the plight of political prisoners that have been circulated in the U.S.S.R...
Like the latest U.S. Episcopal revision, voted in last year after fierce debate, the English Alternative Service Book aims to provide easily understood language and numerous optional forms of services. In the process, many resounding and beloved phrases have been dropped or altered. The archaic "I plight thee my troth" of the wedding vow gives way to "This is my solemn vow." "Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace" becomes "Lord now you let your servant go in peace." "We praise thee, O God" changes to "You are God and we praise you." "We are truly sorry...