Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Viennese are drably dressed these days, for there are no textiles anywhere in Austria; on the black market a pair of men's shoes costs $200, and a pair of silk stockings $25. Vienna's health is poor, with 1,000 new TB cases each month and a heavy VD rate...
...along the West Coast, hunger was South America's own preoccupation. Pointing up the irony West Coast people saw in Herbert Hoover's food-hunting trek, a ragged, famished youngster in a Colombian cartoon begged for "a penny, madam, for the poor little European children who are so hungry!" Colombians, crimped by their ever-present transport problem, were forced to fly beef to their upland capital. At first they offered Hoover only coffee; later they considered relinquishing 8,000 tons of wheat promised by Canada. Ecuador, usually short on wheat, had a bumper rice crop...
Returning to the Charles, a poor start figured in a one length loss to the previously beaten engineers. Bolles' oarsmen then downed the untried Yale eight with ease, but are promised some stiff competition to close the season next week...
Precisely this fatal split occurs, says Ortega, when the faith that has given rich & poor a common belief grows old and dies. It is then that the philosopher must supply the world with a belief that will be both inspiring and practical enough to restore its faith in human cooperation...
Scared Girl, Crazy World. Wesley gets his life direction (to find "his girl") while unconscious with pneumonia. But all the poor boy can find are careless loves. Like all Saroyan's "little people," he dreams of many "higher things," including a son as yet unconceived. Finally, in London, he finds "his girl"-an epitome of those vacant people who tinkle brightly through Saroyan stories like Christmas-tree bells...