Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britain had made. These included exchange arrangements with France, Belgium and Denmark, credits to Greece, help for the British zone in Germany. Keynes stormed that these were "Foreign Office frivolities," which would fritter away too many dollars. He scolded: "The Foreign Office must learn that we have become a poor nation and must cut our foreign policy accordingly. It is useless to have grandiose ideas that we cannot afford to put into operation . . . and our first duty to ourselves and to the world is to safeguard our solvency." They were his last words of advice; he died soon after...
...Cuthbert's Parish Church in Edinburgh. Uncomfortable in such ultra-respectable Christianity, he switched to Glasgow's famed Govan Old Parish Church, in the heart of one of the worst slums. But the church's Christian witness seemed to him no more effective among the poor than among the plushy; after eight years he resigned his pulpit and went to Iona...
...trustees" signed by the Exonian's President John Cowles Jr., 17. (Among the trustees is his father, part owner of the Minneapolis Star-Journal, the Des Moines Register & Tribune, and Look.) Young Cowles obviously thought that the faculty's action was a concession to Exeter scholars from poor families...
...nation's airlines, harried by rising expenses and falling traffic, thought that rates must go up before long. This would be a doubtful solution of their troubles. Higher rates would probably mean even fewer passengers on planes now flying with many empty seats. Said a Standard & Poor's analysis of near-future air transport earnings: "Drab...
...Yearling. Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman in an expensive Technicolored version of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' novel about poor folks in Florida's scrub country (TIME...