Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...them with fanfare in the White House. Shy, low-spoken men, the Wrights were embarrassed by all this fuss. Once, after enduring several long-winded speakers at a dinner in France, Wilbur rose and remarked: "The most talkative bird in the world is the parrot. But he is a poor flyer...
...Heartily Detest. . . ." From the Russian pacifist Count Leo Tolstoy and the American hermit-naturalist Henry David Thoreau, Gandhi learned the doctrines of nonviolence and deliberate, organized disobedience to unjust power. He said it was better to be poor and secure with a home spinning wheel than to be less poor and frightened with a great steel mill. He combined the elements into a belief of Christlike simplicity: oppose hate with love, greed with openhandedness, lust with self-control; harm no feeling creature. Of material progress, he said: "I heartily detest this mad desire to destroy distance and time...
Scared. It was a mixed week for Henry Kaiser and Joe Frazer. They announced that K-F had decided not to go through with its proposed issue of 1.5 million more shares of stock (TIME, Jan. 19). K-F was scared off by the poor market for new issues. Two days later, Henry & Joe were honored by initiation into Manhattan's Circus Saints & Sinners Club. Sinner Joe chased Saint Henry around with a fork until he agreed to buy a Frazer...
McKean was a poor lecturer but an unusual man. "O I declare, I sometimes think he will look me right through," wrote one girl on hearing him speak. Nevertheless, he was studious, and the houses's spacious rooms had their first taste of bookishness in the five years of his residence. Fay House saw another prophesy of things to come in the 1820's, when Sophia Dana used the Oval Room to give the neighborhood girls some schooling in subjects that the Harvard men were studying. The classes continued through several years against fearful dangers, for, as an observer remarked...
...Defenses Poor...