Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opposition has only grown stouter. He wants oxen for plowing and cows for milk-not pesos, which he is afraid either to put in a bank or keep at home. The fact that his neighbor's cattle are infected with foot-&-mouth disease seems to him a poor reason for shooting his own herd...
...congratulatory wires and letters piled up on his desk, he lolled in his high-backed chair, chain-smoked, outlined his formula for political success. "I'm good-natured but quick-tempered," said he. "Also they tell me I am bighearted. I will never leave a man in a poor fix if I can help it. No one leaves my office without some hope. But I don't mince words. Sometimes I tell them it's their own damned fault they got into trouble in the first place. Then I try to help them...
Beaten down by loneliness, the hard-of-hearing tend to be irritable and depressed about their trouble. Davis & Co. think that there is no reason to be so gloomy; modern medicine has minimized the handicap of poor hearing...
...National League had one clear superiority to the rival All-America: none of its teams was in so poor shape as the badly-run Brooklyn Dodgers, or the Chicago Rockets, who have won only one game all season. The Nationals' two biggest stars, like the league itself, have been around for years. Sammy Baugh, 33, playing his eleventh season for the Washington Redskins, seemed to throw a football better every year. Though the Redskins are only one step out of the National League cellar, Baugh tops the league with 2,438 yards gained by passing. Right behind...
...There was poor Herbert George, who, though of medium height, had the look of a Disney dwarf. His deeply lined skin was puckered into thin folds in the apprehensive expression of a chimpanzee, and his features so far departed from the normal that those who met him found themselves looking back again and again to see if they could be as they were remembered, though the total impression was by no means monstrous, merely animal...