Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...materials for our industries, and we can put our shoulders to the wheel. But we hope those ships will never bring war materials." Renato de Santis, a Communist, said (and many non-Communists agreed): "The Americans will make us give something in exchange. They treat us like the poor devils we are. It is the way of the world...
...kappa thought No. 23's horror at eating kappa meat pure sentimentality, since everyone knew that in Japan girls from poor families were regularly sold to brothels...
...problem of machines and employment has long been a favorite topic of satirists. In A Modest Proposal Swift similarly suggested that poor Irish mothers be permitted to sell their year-old offspring for 10 shillings. The babies could then be slaughtered, sold as edible meat. This would limit excessive population, furnish a new source of food supply. Clarence Day's Animals in a Machine Age advocated training squirrels to operate textile bobbins, raccoons to run railways. While they worked it would be in the employer's best interest to keep them healthy and fat; when business slackened...
...first round matches were supposed to have been finished Wednesday but poor weather held up several that were scheduled. The tourney has been conducted on a self-regulatory basis and Fradd said last night that he expected contestants to go ahead with the next round play if conditions were suitable. The third round deadline is August 27 and fourth August...
That day Humorist Perelman acquired not only Bijou Lass but two other cows to keep her company. When they arrived at Rising Gorge, his Bucks County (Pa.) farm, his wife took one look and turned a "dusty vermilion." He started to explain, "but the poor creature, irrational as only her sex can be, caught up a nest of flowerpots and was trying to get my range. I spent the night doubled up in a feed bin, listening to the mammoths eating me into bankruptcy. ... To date, they have tucked away twelve bales of hay, five blocks of salt and three...