Word: plight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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HARVARD IS FULL of annoyances during reading and exam periods--besides the exams themselves, of course. Someone always finishes the semester before you, making your plight seem all the worse. Dining halls echo with a thousand whines. One of the worst of these plagues comes in three Day-Glo colors: the highlighter...
...emphasize his concern for the plight of Indochinese refugees, John Paul also traveled 56 miles southeast from Bangkok to the Phanat Nikhom camp, where about 18,000 Vietnamese, Cambodians and Laotians await resettlement. As heavily armed Thai soldiers kept watch, the Pope repeatedly blessed the refugees. "I want you to know of my love," said the Pope. It is a message that he is a clearly taking to the ends of the earth...
...Delta Sigma Theta, held the first of 43 local conferences it has planned on the subject. At Nashville's Fisk University, about 200 scholars and officials from all over the country gathered for marathon discussions - alternately erudite and emotional, brooding and hopeful - on the black family's plight...
...Managua, the capital, a vastly different drama was playing to a packed house. Some 4,000 Nicaraguans crowded into the modernistic Don Bosco Church as the new head of the country's nine-member Roman Catholic Episcopal Conference, Bishop Pablo Antonio Vega, used harsh language to describe the plight of his flock under the Marxist-led Sandinistas. Said Vega: "The tragedy of the Nicaraguan people is that we are living with a totalitarian ideology that no one wants in this country." While the priest spoke, nearly a dozen military Jeeps circled the building. Says a church spokesman...
Most impressive has been the aplomb of Peking and its fresh, well-groomed teams of multilingual emissaries. China has succeeded in courting Pakistan without alienating India; it has wooed the moderate gulf states and also convinced the Palestine Liberation Organization that Peking alone understands its plight. Most important of all, China seems close to recovering sovereignty over the British colony of Hong Kong on its own terms. Last week, while visiting Peking for the twelfth round of talks, Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe became the first British official to concede publicly that Britain will return the colony to China when...