Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...advocate Universal Military Training as a "character and health builder" is to point a finger of shame at our homes and educational systems. If these are so poor, so ignorant or so depraved that the draft is needed to train young men, then it would seem self-evident that we should spend more money for better schools, more for public health, and work out some educational and character-building program for young parents...
...Like Poor Old Benes. The Marshall Plan was not a futile gesture. Indeed, its preliminary success probably forced the Kremlin strategists to move in Czechoslovakia and Finland while the moving was still easy. The Marshall Plan was, however, an incomplete gesture. Greece won't be won by canned pineapples nor China by made-in-Washington land reforms. The Czech coup might not have been tried if the U.S. had not looked helpless in Greece, helpless in China, and silly -or worse-in Palestine...
Since peace broke out at Potsdam, the Paris meeting has been the only crisis created by the West, the only time anti-Communism has taken the ball. The rest of the time the West has been waiting-like poor old Benes in Prague-and every day of waiting the cat creeps closer...
Among Manhattan sports editors, the Hearstian Mirror's mustached Dan Parker is the heftiest (260 Ibs.), the most cynical about fight promoters (he keeps needling their racket), and on good days, the poor man's Eustace Tilley.* Dan Parker had some fun with the Bronx tongue in his Dialectician's Dictionary. Samples...
Morrison, director of English, explains that the supply of competent teachers has not kept abreast of swollen high school enrollments. Blaming poor pay, long hours, and overwork, he thinks that if English teachers could put the debating team, school paper, and dramatic club under someone else's guiding hand, they would have time for more practical instruction...