Word: plighted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Viet Nam is an obvious, perhaps overly simplistic excuse for a complex and chronic problem. Yet Europe's conservative bankers are sympathetic to the U.S.'s wartime payments plight. With the exception of the French, they have no current plans to cash in most of their greenbacks for U.S. gold, a move that would cause a run on the dollar. They keep pointing out, however, that the U.S. could and should do more to balance its books. Said Bundesbank President Karl Blessing last week: "The raising of the discount rate last December was a step in this direction...
...condition that so aroused a President's concern has become the concern of an entire nation. Since his succession to the presidency, Lyndon Johnson has repeatedly limned the plight of those he has called, paraphrasing Disraeli, "that other nation within a nation-the poor-whose distress has not captured the conscience of America." Enthusiastically embracing the assault on poverty as "my kind of program," Johnson in his first State of the Union message pledged allegiance to those who "live on the outskirts of hope-some because of their poverty, and some because of their color, and all too many...
...molest us-we're American citizens," says a frail missionary lady, reeling off exposition at a godforsaken outpost in northern China in the year 1935. Of course, most of the dreadful events thus predicted duly come to pass, and all that remains to arouse sympathy is the plight of some rather interesting actresses, trapped on MGM's chintzy Chinese sound stage with absurd situations, hoked-up direction and dialogue like wet firecrackers...
...students are more pious, humble and industrious than the young men who study for the Roman Catholic priesthood. And perhaps no archbishop in the U.S. is more sympathetic to the plight of the meek than Boston's mercurial Richard Cardinal Gushing. Now students from St. John's Seminary,* barely a stone's throw from Cushing's residence, are rebelliously demanding reform. Cushing, suddenly stiff-necked, has expelled eight of them. The battle between liberal prelate and freedom-seeking students symbolizes one of the unresolved problems of the new spirit of freedom in the Catholic Church: reformation...
Oozing unctuous concern for the plight of dateless girls, a group of Princeton men last fall published Where the Girls Are, a guide to the delights of dating at Eastern women's colleges. Last week, for their pains, they got back a stiletto of witticism called Where the Boys Are, researched by girls at Smith and Mount Holyoke and written by two male turncoats at Amherst...