Word: plights
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about slow expiration from leukemia have become something of a literary genre. In his best novel, Blood of the Lamb, Peter DeVries wrote obliquely about his daughter's leukemia. Stewart Alsop collected nerve and wits long enough during a remission to write Stay of Execution about his own plight before he died. Football Player Brian Piccolo's death became first a fond memoir by his friend Gale Sayers, then a TV film called Brian's Song. Now Freelance Writer Doris Lund offers Eric, a book about her son's successful four-year struggle to live courageously...
Shared Meat. The plight of the meatmen is just one example of the intricate economics of hunger that nearly all new advocates of fasting recognize. They agree that fasting is of little practical use unless money thus saved is sent to relief agencies or any surpluses created are somehow transferred to the hungry. A cutback in U.S. eating habits, even if sustained, will not automatically put grain on the table in Ethiopia or India. Thus churchmen recommend that Christians also get involved in political action to force increases in Government purchase and shipment of food to hungry countries...
Historically, Harvard's graduates have generally stood with the social engineers, beginning with those Harvard-educated Abolitionists whose sensitivity to the plight of black slaves strangely blended with a massive contempt for Irish workers. By helping to create and run a society that kept poor blacks and whites fighting for its leavings, these people helped to nourish the roots of racism, even though they discriminated only in the most genteel ways--much like Harvard today, with its fashionably mild distaste for the Afro-American Studies Department and its yearly production of a crop of youth to fill the houses...
...President Ford scheduled a press conference early this week at which he is expected to admit that the slump has worsened more rapidly than he foresaw when he submitted his 31 -point economic-policy package to Congress in October. He is likely to express special concern about the plight of the auto industry and to announce that he has asked his economic advisers for new ideas on how to fight recession-without giving up the battle against inflation, which the President still views as "Public Enemy No. 1" and, indeed, as the primary cause of recession...
This is a valid question that consumers are asking and I was seeking help in obtaining an answer for them. I personally believe we have no other choice but to respond to the plight of the world's hungry people...