Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Poor Tom?" Back in Washington, other Republican hopefuls took a long, careful look. They counted the stop-Dewey votes. Bob Taft's supporters, already stepping up their campaign, claimed at least 200; Stassenites "claimed another 185; a bobtail of favorite sons controlled another big chunk. His opponents, assessing Dewey's trip, decided that he had blundered. Reports were coming back from politicians who were more riled than anything else by Dewey's attempted blitz. Some experts figured that Dewey had played right into the hands of Harold Stassen, who has long been trying to get Dewey...
There were many other arrangements to be made. Philip, for instance, was comparatively poor and would need money. A Daily Worker cartoon showed Elizabeth complaining: "He won't take my money, father. He wants to live on his Navy pay." But in Manchester a working bus driver conceded: "I think the Royal Family gives us something other countries haven't got. I'm willing to pay for it." King George was expected to ask Parliament for ?35,000 a year for Philip. Elizabeth's own allowance (?15,000) would be upped. In time the couple would...
Better than Pepín Martín, but not what the crowd had come for, was Parrita. They call him "el Manolete de los pobres" (the poor man's Manolete). He is tall, a little heavyset, and looks like a Yale man learning to be a bond salesman. Parrita does one thing that only he and Manolete, who is the master, can do, and which may get them killed one afternoon. When he has the bull under complete control, Parrita will incite the bull to charge, then look up into the gallery as the bull passes him, depending...
...governor. De Barros thinks that Vargas expected him to "hang himself." Only, he laughs, "I didn't." As interventor, he built roads, hospitals and schools. Then, in 1941, after a fight with the Dictator's unsavory brother Benjamin, De Barros was fired. He had taken office a poor man; he left it the owner of plantations, textile factories, a dolomite mine and a candy factory...
...should enter a pact. To dream of a revolution is . . . to carry it out with double strength. . . . Surrealism is what will be." Observers discounted the big talk. Said one: "After the gas chambers, those heaps of bones and teeth and shoes and eyeglasses, what is there left for the poor Surrealists to shock us with...