Word: plighted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recommending a special Combined Charities Scholarship, intended for a student whose "financial situation has changed to the point that his returning to Harvard would be impossible without help," they perhaps had nothing more in mind than an individual loss of scholarship. But in doing so they anticipated the plight...
...Reports (CBS, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). In Harvest of Shame the plight of the migratory worker is pondered by Ed Murrow and Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell among others...
...constant undercutting of pompous pronouncements about twentieth century notions of the plight of modern man manifests itself in talk about God, nature ("We should turn resolutely towards nature." "We've tried that."), and even about the play itself ("...yesterday evening we spent blathering about nothing in particular. That's been going on now for half a century," or "This is becoming really insignificant.") But, Beckett also elevates vaudeville routines--quick changes of identical hats and pants falling down--and cliched conversation into ironic or obscene importance. Gogo says, "I can't go on like this." and Didi replies, "That...
...Havana was that Economic Czar Ernesto ("Che") Guevara would go to Russia in November and there ask for increased aid, possibly even consigning Cuba's entire sugar crop to the Soviets. Unless Russia was prepared to play Santa Claus, the deal could only worsen Cuba's economic plight. Just diverting one-third of this year's harvest to Iron Curtain countries at their prices (3¼? per lb. v. 4? production cost) was enough to slash sugar workers' wages from $1.31 daily...
...Plight of Pilot Powers...