Word: plight
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Jesus' call for his followers to be sensitive to the plight of the poor and oppressed is absent in the doctrines of the supposedly "Christian" political right. In its support of a balanced budget and a strong national defense, it is willing to starve social programs (and people) to feed an already bloated military machine...
...brother William, superintendent of the American School in Pakistan, had been visiting Tehran when the embassy was seized. Paul Keough argued that the emotionally wrenching sight of relatives pleading in Tehran for permission to see the hostages would distract world opinion from the "human indignity" of the captives' plight. Said he: "The main issue is that this is a violation of international law, whether they let the relatives in to visit...
Fatal Flowers, subtitled On Sin, Sex, and Suicide in the Deep South, is the author's attempt to describe the plight of such Southern womanhood by reporting how she grew up poor and frustrated in a region overripe with lust and repression: "What I had once seen as the condition of being female, I now saw as female and Southern. I perceived my mother, grandmothers, sister, daughters-and all the women whose roots I shared-as netted in one mutual silken bondage. Together, we were trapped in a morass of Spanish moss, Bible Belt guilt, and the pressures...
Most of Washington's attention, however, was focused last week on the unrelieved plight of the 50 American hostages in the U.S. embassy in Iran. And it was on this matter that sparks were flying with the allies. Since the start of the month, the White House stand on Iran had become increasingly tough. In a televised press conference late last week, Carter tightened the economic and political sanctions against Iran that he had announced on April 7 and declared that "we're beyond the time for gestures; we want our people to be set free." In a clear warning...
City Manager James L. Sullivan called the University's action "proof that Harvard has more interest in the almighty dollar than in Cambridge's financial plight," and added that the city will demand Harvard pay back taxes on the land, located north of Lesley College...