Word: plights
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...performed as a romantic lead in stage comedies and musicals, and in the 1930s turned to similar roles in films. In 1940 he directed the first of his 34 movies, but World War II and its devastating effects on Italy moved De Sica to focus his attention on the plight of the poor. He often found his actors among street people, told unadorned tales of poverty and pain, and by 1965 had won three Academy Awards: for Shoeshine, The Bicycle Thief and Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. A compulsive gambler who lost some $6 million in Europe's casinos...
Cattlemen's Plight. Planned for a month by a group of disgruntled farmers, each of whom contributed three or four animals, the slaughter was dutifully recorded by television cameras and flashed into millions of American homes on network newscasts that evening. The point of the staged massacre was to draw White House attention to the cattlemen's plight. Caught between soaring feed-grain prices and depressed wholesale prices for their beef, farmers claim that they are losing money and in some cases facing bankruptcy. (Consumers have hardly noticed much drop in meat prices, but farmers suspect middlemen...
...abolish the U.N. or pull the U.S. out? Not at all. His book comes out as a lament for the U.N.'s failed trust. Walter Mittyism seizes Buckley again as he imagines a coup in which U.N. military advisers take over and forbid the Arabs to bemoan the plight of the world's poor without sharing their oil, or the Africans to excoriate racism without subduing their own racists. In Buckley's fantasy U.N., too, Eastern European representatives would be required to ask Soviet permission every time they rise to speak. Buckley concludes that the world would...
...body quite literally consumes itself and deteriorates rapidly. The kidneys, liver and endocrine system often cease to function properly. A shortage of carbohydrates, which play a vital role in brain chemistry, affects the mind. Lassitude and confusion set in, so that starvation victims often seem unaware of their plight. The body's defenses drop; disease kills most famine victims before they have time to starve to death. An individual begins to starve when he has lost about a third of his normal body weight. Once this loss exceeds 40%, death is almost inevitable...
...sure when the end came, but I was suddenly alerted to H. Wadsworth's plight when a concerned patron behind me leaned forward and said, "Excuse me, but I think your friend has frozen. I believe that's an icicle on his chin...