Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Those with money and education seemed confident that they would become the elite of Armenia. The poor among them seemed sure that Russia offered them opportunity the U.S. had denied them. But there were things about their journey which many of them did not know. Most seemed ignorant of the fact that they were one small part of a mass movement -that Russia, which needs men for her farms & factories in Armenia, was bringing Armenians back by the thousands from poorer European countries and the Middle East. All 150 had renounced their U.S. citizenship and were sailing as Russian immigrants...
...TIME, June 2). Next day the court passed sentence: life imprisonment for 14 of the murderers, 15 years' hard labor for the other two. An old Communist in the audience, who had not forgotten his year at Sachsenhausen, hissed: "They're making these swine out to be poor misguided people. I hope they send them all to the lead mines in Siberia...
...Gallegos (TIME, Sept. 29), Caldera last week picked the Caracas bull ring for the opening speech of his campaign. After the cheers had rolled away, he outlined his party's "Social Christianity" program. "The rich should be less rich, the poor less poor," he said. He asked more rights for labor. Pumping away with his right arm, he attacked the Marxism of Acción Democrática, called for "social peace" to replace the class struggle. Caldera, whose party has church support (it accuses Acción of being anti-Catholic), plumped for a concordat that would abolish...
...whole generation of socially conscious writers have walked through the door which Dreiser opened with Sister Carrie and The Financier. In The Stoic, Dreiser is at the end of the corridor, looking backwards. A blazer of trails, he was nevertheless a poor guide; his limitations as a thinker were summed up in his autobiography: "Chronically nebulous, doubting, uncertain, I stared at everything, only wondering, not solving...
...little Red Cannon, symbol of Middle Three football supremacy, was whisked up into the Crimson colonnades between the halves of the Rutgers game. Distraught Targum editors branded the theft "poor sportsmanship." The cannon is "a very important thing" to the Middle Three, they pointed...