Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jimmy Doolittle's six-man investigating board delivered its report to the War Department on the cause & cure of the Army's "caste system." Its 53 pages and 10,000 words boiled down to a diagnosis which surprised no one: the roots of the disease were 1) poor leadership; 2) an excessive official and social gap between officers...
...threatening clouds of Soviet expansion were beginning to precipitate. Last fortnight, as negotiations between Iran and its rebel Soviet-sponsored Azerbaijan province broke down, Azerbaijan's Russian-installed Radio Tabriz declaimed: "We declare war against Iran. . . ." Later Tabriz dispatches explained that poor flying weather postponed the war. Last week Tabriz reported that Teheran troops were attacking Azerbaijan along 150 miles of the Kurdistan front...
...caught. The skvader has a hare's head and legs (with the typical capercailzie red patch over the eyes), and the wings and hind body of a capercailzie. . . . Very little is known about the habits of the skvader. Owing to the great wing loading, its flyability is probably poor, if any. The taxidermist, who prepared it, died without revealing the place where he had caught the unique specimen. No zoologist has been able to say for certain whether the hare was the mother and the capercailzie the father, or vice versa. One school of scientists have even gone...
...every one of the six stories which make up the book, Evil is the dominant theme. Wilbur Flick, the poor little rich boy, after running through a couple of wives and a great deal of money, finally sops his conscience by becoming the angel of a minuscule Communist front organization. Ellen Terhune's entire life is oppressed by her guilty sense of the past. The Manichean heresy that God and the Devil are each in control of half the world, a heresy which the New England ministers of the seventeenth century all unwittingly dramatized into the permanent fabric of American...
Both teams were hampered considerably by the condition of the field which was dotted with puddles and was slippery from 24 hours of rain. As a result the passing on both teams was poor and dodging was virtually impossible...