Word: plights
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Guggenheim, who became concerned about the plight of the Dogon tribe in Mali during a trip there three years ago, has asked Everett I. Mendelsohn, chairman of the History of Science Department, to provide the names of three Harvard students who might go on the expedition. However, Guggenheim said that he will also consider applications from other students...
With European diplomats, Kissinger sought to leave the impression that President Nixon's trip is still a possibility this year. No dates were mentioned, however, and Western envoys are now more or less resigned to the likelihood that the constitutional crisis over the Watergate tapes and the plight of Vice President Agnew will force Nixon to postpone his visit until 1974. Kissinger looked over a draft proposal outlining long-range Common Market goals and priorities and politely suggested that the nine nations try for something more specific than vague generalities. Both the U.S. and the members of the European...
...make it more human." That is probably a forlorn hope. Honecker's government will under no circumstance allow the people to be tempted by anything more dangerous than blue jeans or bluegrass. Peter Hacks, the most important East German playwright since Bertolt Brecht, sums up the plight of his countrymen in his drama The Troubles and the Power...
Have you ever considered the plight to those who support the unfortunate New England Patriots? Have you ever given an operative thought to what a poor, often-kicked-around individual he is? What kind of pressure he takes week after week? What sort of frustration builds inside him while he watches Chuck Fairbanks and his Foxboro Follies? What sort of optimist this great fan must be to sit through four periods of a Pats game...
They are also organizing a prisoner-adoption campaign, in which individual Americans write to American and Vietnamese officials about the plight of individual prisoners--including National Liberation Front soldiers and supporters, neutralists and pacifists, and people apparently arrested by mistake...