Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...double-crossed his political allies. When he ended his second term as governor in 1932, Mississippi had all but sunk into bankruptcy. His cries for "white supremacy" had affronted millions. But few demagogues had capitalized so skillfully on fear, prejudice and the human need for drama. The poor Mississippians whom he called "peckerwoods" elected him again & again...
Screamed tough, wiry Communist Leader Otello Barbi: "You cornacchiacce, you dirty black ravens, you always turn everything into an instrument of propaganda in your favor. You just want all poor to be forced to sign on to the parish list." Salvatore Gallo, a stocky Christian Democrat, rose from his café table in the square: "You volponaccio rosso, you sly red fox, you know very well that the parish helps all the poor. It's only that you want the poor to be forced to come to you Communists." Barbi rushed up: "You lying cornacchia, we think only...
...three couples, each made up of a burly ex-partisan (representing the town council) and a prim, Catholic spinster (representing the church) made the rounds. Barbi muttered darkly: "Why, those partisans haven't any sense. They will let those monstrous females do all the talking and convince the poor that it's the priest and not the municipality giving them the money." Meanwhile, Father Bernardoni knelt before the Virgin Mary with a group of demure, dark-eyed members of the Catholic Girls' Association, and prayed loudly: "Helper of Virgins, please help Miss Bianca, Miss Filomena, Miss Agata...
...return of Fascism. Father Bernardoni favored the old position, so that all could see it, and no one would be late for Mass. But the Socialists wanted it turned toward the sea for the fishermen; the Communists wanted it turned toward the harbor for the dockhands: "Deckhands are poor-salaried workers, while fishermen are small proprietors who should buy their own watches." A showdown came again in the municipal committee room...
...Morinigo's police chief asked factories, stores and banks to open for business. Indian women, riding burros sidesaddle and shielding their heads with umbrellas, began to move toward the markets with food for the hungry capital. Little boys resumed their sale of stuffed, varnished frogs. But Paraguay, too poor to afford a sewage system or central water works for its capital, would be a long time recovering from the latest revolution, its 27th in 41 years. Much of the nation's bumper crop of cotton, earlier estimated at 40,000.tons, had gone unpicked because workers feared conscription. Cattle...