Word: plights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hocked to the Ears. As an example of what they will find, a TIME correspondent last week reported the plight of Geoffrey Jackson,* 39, sales manager for a London food concern. Geoffrey has an attractive 30-year-old wife, Mary, and a three-month-old baby girl, Jean. Son of a prosperous wholesale grocer in Shropshire, Geoffrey had a solid upbringing and a good education...
Pete Petrillo, George Goodrich, and several other Varsity men who didn't win a berth to Cornell switched over to the Jayvees for the afternoon, and all added to Leicester's plight...
...Oklahoma City, Mrs. Clara Pyatt, who lived in a tent with her two children, started to build a shack with tag ends of used lumber. A dozen taxi drivers, some of them on strike, heard of her plight, built her a three-room bungalow in three days...
...would appreciate the opportunity to apologize to all these United States and their people for the present plight of Louisiana politics. Believe it or not, there are many here who object...
...Shmoo-Plus Theory. Old Man Mose was afraid that a sudden oversupply of consumer goods would produce serious economic dislocations. Typical was the plight of Softhearted John, the shark-mouthed grocer, whose goods no one would buy as long as they could have shmoos instead. "Ah'll be ruined ef ev'ry-body has everything they need!" he moaned. "Ah cain't make any money...