Word: plighted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stricture or contraction which prevented swallowing and before each meal this had to be opened with the tube, which, removed after 15 minutes, left the passage free. The patient then ate raw chopped beef and milk and egg without difficulty. So well did the dog come to realize her plight and her need of assistance, that when feeding time came and she was let out of her cage, she ran at once to the operating table and jumped up, standing quietly for the insertion of the catheter which would permit her taking food. The tissues are regaining normality...
...endorsement to her proposed union campaign there - what is there to be said that is adequate?" The Christian Century continued: "The worst sufferer of all, however, is not the child nor the public, but the church. A performance of this kind is fair notice to all ... of the desperate plight in which the leaders of the church feel themselves to be." The Christian Century also said: "For the sake of the child herself, for the sake of the public conception of religion, for the sake of the church, this crass exploitation should be stopped...
This is the plight of the modern swain...
...whom they loved until it hurt but who nearly drove them insane with fuss-budgeting, shilly-shallying, dibble-dabbling, microscopic solicitude and spiritual myopia. As the young authors-to-be grew up, quick-witted, sensitive, gay, they must have talked together for hours about these people and their plight - perhaps in a meadow like the dewy one in their book Knee-High to aGrasshopper - and been consumed by that uncomfortable emotion which is a mixture of furious exasperation and profound pity. They must have compacted to make a united effort some day to sting, poke, wheedle, pat and charm...
...Piteous Plight. The answer came from Cape Town, South Africa, where there arrived last week from London three potent officials of the Diamond Trust: Lieutenant Colonel Solomon Barnato Joel, Sir Ernest Oppenheimer and Sir Abe Bailey. Proceeding to the Ministry of Mines and Industries these gentlemen figuratively rent their garments. Cried millionaire Solomon B. Joel piteously: "Diamonds will become as common as artificial pearls if the present unrestricted output from 'independent' alluvial diggings continues. . . . Something must be done to alter the present situation. Why, the alluvial diggers are now actually selling more diamonds than the great producers...