Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week, alongside tenement doors and the imposing iron-grill porticoes of mansions, the little figurines glinted in the light of the December moon. For the humble poor as well as the rich, it was Posada time, the season of Mexico's traditional pre-Christmas parties, when visitors go from house to house bearing lighted candles and singing the traditional words that ask shelter for the holy figures. The hosts sing an answer, saying, like the innkeeper of ancient Judea, that all the beds are taken. The ritual over, everyone troops inside for food & drink...
...Bill of Rights to do? O.W. Price, regional education director of the Veterans Administration, doesn't think so. Said he in Los Angeles last week: "Many veterans choose courses that will be of no vocational benefit. Others continue to enter certain glamor courses where employment opportunities are either poor or do not exist [e.g., flying, television, plastics]. It seems a downright shame to see them frittering away their valuable benefits." The trouble, said Price, lies with state agencies which authorize frivolous courses which the Veterans Administration is bound to approve...
...clean-scrubbed,workaday words of the scientists, the book describes "techniques and results." The very fact that such a book can be published without revealing any real secrets stresses a verbal warning by Dr. Rosebury: "Bacterial warfare can be developed by any nation, large or small, rich or poor, to which the resources of modern bacteriology are available." "Resources," in this case, can mean almost any sort of laboratory...
...campaign had been heated but clean-cut, with a minimum of mudslinging. Loser Caldera accused Acción Democrática of "exclusivism," and charged the government with Communist tendencies. (The Communist candidate ran a poor third.) Of Gallegos, he said: "Nobody doubts the sincerity of Gallegos and nobody believes in the sincerity of Acción Democrática...
...mission in western Kansas. As an unmarried vicar he was often asked to board paroled reform-school boys. The boys' response to his decent treatment kept Minister Mize pondering the problems of "exceptional children," as he likes to call delinquents. In 1945, when he learned that the vacant Poor People's Home at Ellsworth could be rented cheaply, "Father Bob" seized the opportunity to put some pet theories into practice...