Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Michigan offensive system which Valpey will bring with him be tossed off as too complicated for the poor little Harvards. There is little doubt that the tricky ball-handling involved will serve simply to arouse squad interest and make the boys work harder...
Missing Links. Far from justifying the grand inclusiveness of the book's title, this sampling has been denounced by British Anthropologist Geoffrey Gorer as "so poor that the only reliable figures are those for [white U.S.] college graduates in six [northeastern and Midwestern] states." Kinsey himself admits that he has not yet assembled adequate data on men over 50, on infants and very young children, on the "rural population," on "a number of the religious groups," on factory workers, and on Negroes...
...that he blushed when he was paid a polite compliment. The French language, which is made for oratory, in his speeches sounded plain and calm. His favorite cartoon character was Ferdinand the Bull. In a land resounding with the Marseillaise and the Internationale, Schuman said quietly: "I have a poor ear for music." He was a part of the sturdy old antediluvian France...
...good people are too simply good and guileless (in real life, the very poor are often very shrewd); the bad people are too simply bad. The camera work, highly accomplished of its romantic kind, drips with purple adjectives; it is profusely overappreciative of images that are beautiful enough to be merely looked at, without urging or comment...
...turned out, possession of this incalculable hope brought only bewilderment, suffering, terror and tragedy to the fisherman and his wife (Maria Elena Marques) and to their infant son. Dealers tried to deceive them; ruffians tried to corrupt and divide them. The poor fisherman had to kill to defend his treasure and his own life. In consequence, the little family was forced into always more desperate flight through swamps and desolate country. The woman knew almost from the outset that tragedy was an inevitable part of such hope as theirs. The man had much to learn before he, too, was ready...