Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heart bleeds for poor Senatah [Olin] Johnston [TIME, March 1]. It's a cryin' shame that the poor man had to miss $100 worth of capon and champagne just because his poor Tie wife was too good to be seen in the same room with a "Nigra...
...Fiery Colchian. Beria, king of the cops, was born March 29, 1899, at Merkheuli, a village in Stalin's own Georgia. His family were poor peasants. He attended the polytechnic school at Baku and joined the Bolshevik Party before he received his degree in draftsmanship and engineering...
...operating room, dressed in a white nurse's costume. ... She passed all this time praying to God for the success of the operation. The President preserved his serenity. . . . Some minutes after I had begun the operation, he was heard to say: 'What a pity! My poor dear descamisados whom I will not be able to see today...
Playwright Franken has a pretty good eye for all the detail of middle-class family life-the rich son, the poor son; the huffiness and stuffiness; the furnishings and food. But anything in The Hallams that isn't made of velvet or mahogany seems made of cardboard. Whenever the play abandons the household for the heart, whenever it exchanges class or clan reactions for personal emotions, it becomes feeble, trite or depressingly empty...
...wheeled chaise to take his seat in the Continental Congress. In the next six months he ran up a boardinghouse bill of $21,373.66, spent $2,459 for liquor, sugar, and fruit and gave his barber $1,020. Madison was neither rich nor extravagant. Like others of his poor but patriotic colleagues, he hardly knew where his next bale of inflationary paper money was coming from. In terms of hard coin, figures Biographer Irving Brant, Madison was living at the modest rate...