Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Trooping up the Newell Boathouse slip on a dark gray day, after an hour of poor rowing, the 150-pound oarsman lowers at his reflection in the sleek wet shell and nurses the black conviction that today he pulled the boat all by himself. It is at this touchy moment that coach Bert Haines, a slim, middling-aged man with a wind-reddened face underlined by a thick white towel around his neck, steps from a launch, calls the day's offender aside, and with gestures explains in a gentle, English-tinged voice, "Now, this is the surface...
...other group from the University's matches library facilities. The inequality may be removed when the Lamont undergraduate library is completed at some unknown future date. Meanwhile, provision should be made so that commuters--numbering considerably more than the membership of the average House--do not continue to be poor in the midst of plenty...
...unsettled state of Europe, the dread potentialities of atomic war, and a lack of faith by the United States and Russia in one another's motives, have produced a condition of tenseness in which the original spirit of the United Nations plays a very poor second to national interest...
...Downey is no more likely to go out of business than he is to settle. Even staunch union men drop into his place, though they always try to keep the pickets, Paddo and Con, from seeing them. "Sure," they all say, "it would hurt the poor lads' feelings...
...longshoremen's shouts, the clatter & clank of cargo winches unloading woolens, steel, chemicals, motorcycles, automobiles, china and plate glass from across the sea. The ships take back Canadian goods. Last week one ship loaded on 1,071 cases of Canadian whiskey for Britain. "That's for us poor blokes," sighed a bosun. "They're sending the Scotch over here...