Word: plighting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Grandpa's plight, however, is secondary to the fact that Cora is on this journey for herself. With the aid of her eccentric, truth-dispensing mother ("A clean colon does wonders for the will to live"), Cora come to the conclusion that "things did not always go as you planned, much less make a handy brand of the right kind of sense." We can only hope that this tidbit of knowledge will make her a better mother than she was grown...
...plight of HASCS is not a secret. The University has been notified numerous times of the desperate needs. The most recent wake-up call was a January memo to the members of the FAS committee on information technology. In that memo, Director Richard S. Steen called HASCS "a ship taking on water faster than it can bail out." He argued that the failure of the University to provide the needed resources was being reflected in low morale...
Naturally, we eat many meals in the Quad, as the Freshman Union is almost a mile away. The students at Currier, Cabot and North Houses have generally been quite courteous and sympathetic to our plight, and have tolerated this invasion of first-years...
...said he was prompted to run by the plight of the Framingham Eight, eight women who were convicted of killing their abusive loversin the 1980s...
Even if you are not terribly interested in the particulars of the lives of the disenfranchised, their plight reflects our values as a society and the importance or lack thereof which we assign to the less fortunate...