Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your article about Mrs. George Morgan [TIME, Dec. 22] and the accompanying cut is both conceived and written in extraordinarily poor taste. Your willingness to accept the evidence of a cheap Japanese novelist is right in keeping with the tradition of yellow journalism...
...Faded Flowerlets." A woman delegate from Naples chimed in: "We in Naples have won to our cause large masses of those poor women who once believed in monarchy by helping them to feed their hungry children, the faded flowerlets who were their dearest pride...
...Sept. 8, as rioting mounted in Delhi, a crowd of Moslems gathered ominously near a hospital run by a quiet little Hindu physician named N. C. Joshi. Even his Moslem neighbors in the slums of Karol Bagh district had known and liked Dr. Joshi for his work among the poor. This morning, however, the neighbors were armed with knives and spears. Dr. Joshi came out of the hospital. Someone fired a rifle. The good doctor dropped dead with a bullet in the skull...
...matter of getting wise to Bobby's cagey game, he said, because he always plays his own strength rather than an opponent's weakness. But he did give Riggs credit for one thing: "Bobby is able to adjust himself to bad conditions better than I am . . . especially poor lighting...
Ulysses S. Grant, a good general and a poor President, credited his sons with virtues they never had. He reportedly thought that Ulysses Jr. had a "marvelous business capacity; that Colonel Frederick Grant was fit to command armies; that Jesse was a mathematical genius." The less indulgent New York World insisted that "the Grant sons, but for the accident of their father's presidency, might have been respectable drygoods clerks in Galena...