Word: plighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dropping huge concrete blocks to break through the two-foot-thick ice and clear a five-mile path to open water. Ultimately, the mammoth rescue effort involved several helicopters, support vehicles and more than 100 people. While only a heart of stone could fail to be moved by the plight of the three whales, the vast resources consumed by their rescue caused some observers to scratch their heads -- not at the behavior of the whales, but at that of their would-be human saviors. Such entrapment in ice, they know, is commonplace. Less than 30 miles from the rescue effort...
Bickering is to be expected. This election, after all, is also a divorce proceeding, an attempt to separate two parties forced to plight their troth four years ago after neither won enough votes to form a government. Under that misnamed government of national unity, Shamir and Peres have shared power, each paralyzing the other's attempts to address the urgent issues confronting Israel. With neither party likely to win more than 47 seats, and both averse to forming coalitions with some of the fringe groups on the extreme right and left, the prospect looms of another uncomfortable power-sharing arrangement...
What began as an unlikely alliance of whalers, oil companies, scientists and environmental activists became a massive project attended by a media circus, prompting questions about America' s conservation priorities. What about the plight of whales beyond the view of network cameras...
Recent news reports have drawn the attention of Harvard students to the plight of Chew Kheng Chuan '82, who has been imprisoned in Singapore since May 8 on charges of participating in a "Marxist conspiracy" against the government. Singapore's Internal Security Act (ISA) permits the indefinite detention, without charge or trial, of any person suspected of posing a threat to national security...
...tough are times for the networks? Just look at the plight of two of TV's most cherished stars, both returning in CBS sitcoms this fall: Mary Tyler Moore and Dick Van Dyke. The pilot episode of The Van Dyke Show (in which Dick plays a Broadway star who helps his son run a regional theater) had to be scrapped and redone when the network decided it wasn't funny enough. Mary's comeback vehicle (she plays a divorced mother who marries a structural engineer with children of his own) also had to be reworked when the producers switched...