Word: plights
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sadness that every American must feel in the face of the pitiful plight of the Vietnamese people," Hartke told his colleagues, "it is clear that Indochina was a drama without villains." However bad, however destructive, however unjustified American Indochina policy may have been, Hartke said, the men who made that policy should not be judged too severely in the aftermath. The war makers, he explained, were "desperate men caught up in a process that had a momentum of its own and which they neither understood nor could control...
Responding to the plight of the homeless refugees, thousands of Americans made big and small offers of jobs, homes and financial help. So many proposals poured in that volunteer agencies helping the State Department relocate the refugees had trouble keeping pace. The agencies are charged with weeding out undesirable sponsors, such as families looking for a cheap maid or old men seeking young girls. Sponsors are asked to provide food, shelter and clothing until the refugee is selfsupporting. Somewhat optimistically, Brown expects all the refugees to be settled in their new homes by the end of July...
...rammed them, more by accident than design, against walls or telegraph poles; with naive glee, they looted stores for wristwatches but threw jewelry away because they had no use for it. Yet their leaders appeared to be tough disciplinarians who were more concerned about ideology than about the plight of the country's war-weary people. There were also reports of public executions, but these were not confirmed by eyewitnesses...
Pillsbury worries over the plight of the small landlord, who is the lowest-level beneficiary of the profit system. He accepts as given the contention that some people have a right to make a profit on others' having a place to live, and hopes that we can still provide decent housing at prices tenants can afford, without understanding the investment system which keeps the housing market going...
...meaning the inevitability of failure. More vividly than older women in fiction, they express women's anger and self-hated and the feeling that there's no way out. Pain is the human condition, but more particularly, these books announce, the female condition... The women novelists who depict their plight find in it constant images of challenge aborted or safely contained: the general fate of female challenge...