Word: plighted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...choosing, someone more compatible. But George Meany considered John Henning a perfect union representative in Government. As soon as he heard of Wirtz's plan to oust Henning, foxy old George arranged dozens of phone calls to top U.S. unionists to tell them of Henning's plight. He also saw to it that the story was leaked to the press. Suddenly, thousands of union men's protest telegrams began to bombard the White House-some even came from ships at sea. Quite a few irritably demanded that Wirtz himself be fired...
Moravia's story describes the plight of a frustrated Italian screenwriter whose wife no longer loves him. Hired to write a film version of the Odyssey, he sees his wife being seduced by the producer and drifts into complex psychoanalogies about Ulysses, the loyal Penelope and her pernicious suitors...
...leader, which sold nearly a third of all U.S. cars a few years ago, actually suffered a 5% decline in sales, dropping to 28% of the market. Sales at American Motors, the compact company that has failed to share in Detroit's prosperity, were down 14%. Despite its plight, American is looking toward the new model year with just as much anticipation as its bigger brothers. In March it plans to introduce a fastback Rambler called the Marlin, hoping that it will serve as good bait for the customers who got away...
Britain's plight would not be so severe were it not for the nation's present eminence in the world's monetary structure. Such nations as France and Italy are better able to undergo economic crises than Britain, whose sterling is the world's second reserve currency after the dollar. Sterling is thus held temporarily by persons all over the world because of the ease with which it can be used in banking and trading-and many of them tend to unload it as quickly as possible when it seems to be threatened by economic difficulties...
...live, but it seems increasingly unable to afford the price of these imports. Although British exports are still among the world's highest and have risen steadily in absolute terms, the nation's share of world exports has been steadily declining. A measure of Britain's plight is that the Beatles' 1963 overseas earnings of $56 million was hailed as a major contribution to the balance of payments. Another measure is that in the past decade Britain has almost exactly reversed positions with Germany: where Britain had 20.9% of world exports of manufactured goods...