Word: plight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Planned Parenthood for advice, but was told that the Government could not pay for her operation. In October the Hyde Amendment, which cut off federal funds for all abortions except for pregnancies that endangered a woman's life, would go into effect. But Cora McRae's plight aroused the sympathies of civil rights lawyers, who started a legal battle in her behalf. Last week that battle culminated in a sweeping decision by Brooklyn Federal District Court Judge John F. Dooling Jr. He ruled that the Hyde Amendment is unconstitutional, and he ordered the Government to provide Medicaid funds...
...President's Men) establishes a new type of man-woman-in-the-movies relationship; they are friends, very strong friends, but just that. Alexander's performance is crucial to the success of the film, as she moves with the audience's feelings, first sympathetic to Joanna's plight and gradually realizing that Ted's heart is in the right place...
...their part, the peasants treated their admirers with skepticism, often jeering at the intellectuals who came to extol their virtues, explain their plight to them and exhort them to action. The peasants were equally skeptical in their reaction to yet another set of admirers, the Bolsheviks, who set out to collectivize the country's cultivated land, most of which had been owned by the peasantry on the eve of the Revolution. Many of the peasants pictured in The Russian Empire no doubt became victims of the enforced collectivization of 1929, whose mass deportations and man-made famine cost some...