Word: plight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...playing itself out last week as well, one that at first tugged only lightly at the fringes of the nation's attention, then seized it with surprising force as it inched toward a climax. For more than two days late in the week, Americans were gripped by the plight of little Jessica McClure, 18 months young, who tumbled down a well while playing in her aunt's backyard. Trapped underground for 58 desperate hours, the child seemed doomed. Yet a down-but-determined West Texas town rallied round and literally clawed its way to her rescue. The drama offered...
...With the plight of homeless Americans suddenly becoming visible in the winter of 1985, Tom became increasingly bothered by what he terms the Reagan era's celebration of salesmanship...
...news feature, "Razo Case Raises Wide Questions," Jeffrey S. Nordhaus drew on several long conversations with me and others in an effort to portray more general "Minority Plight." As I remarked to him, I was seeking to disaggregate and "complexify" the story, which was inevitably getting too long for daily jounalism. Mr. Nordhaus wrote with care and sympathy. But he reverses the races in one episode I told him. I was seeking to illustrate the ways a Black table in a House may form, and the difficulty white students or even Tutors would have in going to sit down...
Members of one of the families Dershowitz worked to release, the Gudava family, were at the write-a-thon to help publicize the plight of Soviet refuseniks...
...movies." O'Neill had to correct him: "No, Mr. President. You're thinking of Grover Cleveland Alexander, the ball player." Reagan's tendency to see every problem in the most limited personal terms infuriated O'Neill. In arguing against some Social Security cuts, O'Neill described the plight of a girl who would be losing her college benefits. Reagan called in an aide and said, "Let's see if we can take care of this girl." O'Neill jumped in. "I'm not here to talk about one girl. I'm using her as an example." Writes O'Neill...