Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...poor boy and a poor young man. At 15, he went to work as a printer's devil. After he learned his trade he traveled the countryside as a journeyman printer with no baggage but a shirt, a fighting cock and a few books. Poverty kept him rebellious, but it also made him patient, diligent, capable of drudgery. He became an editor. At 30, by borrowing money, he bought the Lynchburg Daily News. Inevitably he got into politics. But he did not begin his real career until he went to Congress...
...Poor Mr. Audubon." When a British engraver agreed to copy his watercolors for publication, Audubon's fame & fortune were made. Said he in a letter from Edinburgh to his long-suffering Lucy: "It is Mr. Audubon here and Mr. Audubon there until I am afraid poor Mr. Audubon is in danger of having his head turned." With his big beak, feathery sideburns and piercing eyes, he looked, in his latter days, like a benevolent eagle...
Quipped Columnist "William Hickey" of London's Daily Express: "Alas, poor Oxford! Torn 'twixt atom and rowlock, the sliding world and the sliding seat...
...During the war, when courses were in poor shape, most tournaments permitted golfers to improve bad fairway lies...
...perilous to the life and spirit of man as "the bloody, disgusting zone of revolution." In the strongest, least ambiguous sentences of his book, he upholds the Roman thesis that national unity must rest on the inescapable "reality" of society's division into "the rich and the poor, the illustrious and the nameless, the creative . . . and the vulgar." Each of these twins should have rights; but neither have the right to split the state...