Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Truman had strong proof of Europe's need. A report of his Cabinet Food Committee spelled out the story in convincing detail: because of poor crops abroad, because of a sharp drop in U.S. corn production, Europe now faced a food shortage of 4.5 million tons in grain alone. If scarcity of U.S. corn meant that farmers would turn to wheat to feed their hogs and cattle, the gap would increase by another two million tons. The committee counted on other exporting nations to boost their quotas, on hungry Europeans to tighten up on their own food-collection...
...Lakhidnya asked a U.S. lieutenant: "When you will start fighting the Russians?" The lieutenant had heard the question many times before. Jokingly he pointed to a row of carbines: "When we have two more guns." To Lakhidnya it was a poor joke. But he smiled politely and said: "One pistol-that all you need. That-and one ammunition...
...denying that his boys were twice as fast and slicker than a riverboat gambler. To newsmen he confessed sarcastically: "Sure, everyone's a star around here." A few days later, with bands blaring and the first hint of autumn in the air, Crisler's boys took poor Michigan State apart...
Prospects look good this year for paying all bills. In 1942 the team had a poor season and the following year football was discontinued. When the sport was resumed formally last fall, it was too late to work more than a few "big" games into the schedule, and the H.A.A. had the frustrating experience of watching an exceptionally good team materialize form nowhere, only to play before relatively small crowds. The Princeton, Dartmouth, and Yale games were held in the smaller of the two available stadiums; the Connecticut, Tufts, Coast Guard, and Rutgers games had little drawing appeal...
Here everyone is in the tentacles of Hollywood, and even the president of the studio is wretched, for his dirty old uncle bullies him and interferes with his love life. All the characters are seen as poor, pathetic creatures, and Bemelmans sets forth his point of view concisely near the end of the book: "God!... You have to be tolerant in this world, but out here you have to be especially tolerant or you choke with hate. Gee, it's easy to hate these guys, if you let yourself. They're so awful. Every one a heel, everyone a procurer...