Word: plight
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...study by the Congressional Budget Office estimated that 13.8 million children were in poverty in 1983, an increase of more than 4 million since 1973. The CBO findings were reinforced last week by a report from the nonprofit Children's Defense Fund. According to C.D.F. President Marian Edelman, the plight of black children has worsened dramatically compared with that of whites since 1980. Black children, said Edelman, are now twice as likely as whites to die before their first birthday, three times as likely to live in an impoverished or female-headed family, four times as likely to live with...
...mutual problem took Red Cross representatives from North Korea over the border to talk with their counterparts in the long-hated South last week. It was the plight of some 10 million people who have been separated from their families, unable even to write letters to one another, since Korea was partitioned at the time of its liberation from the Japanese in 1945. The meeting got off to a rocky start when North Korean delegates refused to allow their South Korean hosts to show them the new sports complex in Seoul, where the 1988 Summer Olympic Games...
South African apartheid has emerged as the human rights issue of the eighties, largely because the issues at stake are so similar to those in America 20 years ago. The problems of minorities in the United States, though significant, no longer lie purely in the legal realm. The plight of Blacks suffering under the Afrikaaner yoke has emerged as an important cause for American liberals because the issue--unlike most in America--is literally black and white...
...means flinging in poetry from Byron, music from Beethoven or borrowings from the past 20 years of avant-garde theater, so be it. His stage effects are frequently apt and memorable. When Dantes is thrown into a dungeon, he and a grizzled fellow prisoner (David Warrilow) wail about their plight as their bodies sink beneath the stage. Soon only their heads are visible, lighted starkly from below, in a striking, Beckett-like image of existential despair...
...persistent is the plight of small children in Home Truths that the reader may fairly guess at some trauma glimpsed or experienced during the author's childhood in Montreal. In Orphans' Progress, for example, two wretched little girls are locked up in a French-Canadian convent school. Eight-year-old Mildred and twelve-year-old Cathie are bathed every two weeks, the one wearing a rubber apron and the other a muslin shift so they cannot see their own bodies. The state of Mildred's thumb tells it all: "Sucked white, (it) was taped to the palm of her hand...