Word: plight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With that I lowered myself to the ground and crawled chest to earth between the rows of strawberries, trying not to emit the sound that would send the fanged canines to do me in. I was too scared to visualize the surreal implications of my plight. Each foot was emotionally exhausting, each moment a frame from a real-life thriller. And all I wanted was fantasy: the mundane reality waiting at Cinderella's Castle...
...struggle of Blacks for equality in the U.S. is similar to the plight of Blacks in South Africa, said poet Baraka, a professor at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Stonybrook...
Some members of the community may object to a plan which provides housing for the homeless within the University neighborhood. However, judging from the outcry over last year's removal of homeless men from Leverett House heating grates, there seems to be a real sensitivity for the plight of the homeless. Given that the presence of the Lutheran Church shelter seems to be tolerable, it is likely that such a transitional living center would be an innocuous, and even welcome, addition to the neighborhood...
...surface when the subject turns to Bernhard Goetz and the shots he fired at four young blacks aboard a Manhattan subway train. A nation that would like to believe it can shun stereotypes, that cherishes the ideals of equality and brotherhood, continues to be haunted by the plight of a segment of its citizenry that remains mired in a seemingly intractable dilemma of race and poverty: the young, black males of its underclass...
...others sharply dispute this notion. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan of ! New York, who brought attention to the plight of the black family in a controversial report two decades ago, called the Administration study "less a policy paper than a tantrum. They're not writing from facts. This is just ideology." Indeed, there is little hard evidence to show that welfare alone encourages family breakdown. A study by Sociologists David Ellwood and Mary Jo Bane, of Harvard's Kennedy School, found no correlation between the birth rates for unwed mothers and welfare-benefit levels from state to state. They argue...