Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...returned to the dump day after day to watch and make friends with the scavengers. They were a poor and filthy rabble, but Ye Yun Ho got along fine with them. While they waited for fresh loads of garbage to arrive, he told them Bible stories and taught them a few hymns...
...uses for a chair and warming his slender hands over a tiny charcoal brazier. "In the spring I hope to start a day school. I hope also ... to make plans to improve their condition. It is too difficult to change their occupation at once, for they are too poor...
Cause. The reasons for the break were obvious. The swift rise in grain prices in the last year had been caused chiefly by 1) huge Government buying for export, and 2) fears of a poor U.S. grain crop this year. Now the Government has almost completed its buying. Furthermore, 1948 crop prospects have turned out to be good, both here and abroad, and they are getting better all the time. Australia and Argentina last month shipped two and a half times as much wheat as in the same period a year before. France expects to double her 1947 crops. Russia...
...first postwar shipment of Japanese rayon arrived in the U.S. But it gave U.S. rayon men no competitive worries. The Japanese product was so poor that importers could sell little of the cloth to U.S. buyers. They were offering it for reexport at about 50? a yard, considerably under domestic prices...
...hauntingly phrased: "The man who from afar off yearns for his wife or merely for the home of his childhood has begun his sleepwalking. . . . He still hears the voice of the demagogue, but it comes as a mere unmeaning murmur. He stretches his arms sideways and forwards like a poor tightrope dancer who, high above solid earth, knows of a better support...