Word: plighted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TIME's lavish contribution, in the form of a cover story, to the Israeli cause is exceeded only by the distorted, sketchy coverage afforded the plight of the Arabs. Neither eloquent oratory nor military victories can decide the rights of people. Win or lose, the underlying principle for the Arab struggle is no less justified. Where was indignant world opinion in 1947 when "third parties" paid off political debts with land that they did not own? Where were those who now call for justice when these parties permitted the Arab to be ejected from land he has owned...
More than Good Will. Any solution will thus demand much more than ordinary good will. Still, a beginning has to be made, and many feel that the present crisis is the very time to try to start with the hitherto unsolvable plight of the refugees. However the crisis is finally resolved, Israel must somehow make peace with the Arabs if it is to survive as a nation. It cannot prosper indefinitely, or even exist indefinitely, barricaded against its neighbors. If Israel is to continue to thrive, it has to find a way to trade in peace, attract new investment...
...Teaching Fellows should rest silently. They cannot. Everyone at Harvard wishes to see their lot, especially their financial lot, improved. The leaders of the Teaching Fellows would perhaps be well advised at this time to return to Deans Elder and Ford and explain once again their dire financial plight: the imminently rising cost of living in the Cambridge area. This administration is not tough and hard-boiled; they can be made to understand that their graduate students cannot make ends meet on the present shoe-string salary they receive. In fact, they must be made to understand before the situation...
McCalla's request was a bit unusual, but, said Warden Frank Pate, "I talked to the parole board, and they agreed to let him stay." McCalla settled down to study in the prison library. Hearing of his plight, Northern Illinois U. snipped academic red tape and gave him his exams early. He sailed through with a B average and sailed out of Stateville only 23 days late. Next fall he hopes to enjoy the real and academic freedom of an undergraduate senior, perhaps on the Northern Illinois campus...
...Boston matrons gathered in the home of Mrs. Henry Durant to discuss the plight of friendless working girls arriving in the city without a home...