Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have time to mull over our contacts with French people of all casts and classes, and to ponder over the events which are plunging our unfortunate country in the depths of despair. We wonder that no one has come forward to say that if the Government of France is poor and reduced to expedients, it is because the war-weary people have lost confidence and interest. Though they sadly need the aid that the U.S. might proffer, they know that it is not reasonable of such a government to ask it. But we feel certain that if the U.S. Government...
...During this entire war the War Department has, by its actions and activities, acknowledged poor morale in the enlisted man's ranks. Some of the possible causes of this trouble...
...Here, Joe, old boy, is a 20, how's about fixing me up with a table and I don't want one in the Polar Region." (Editor's note: behind a pole.) If he says no, make it a50, as I happen to know the poor guy . . . has a tough struggle buying a home on Park Avenue...
...Clark joined Hunter and Fisher in annexing two firsts for the Crimson. He won the 220-yard dash in 23.3 seconds and the 440-yard run in 52 seconds. Violent head winds which blew clouds of dust around the Stadium were largely responsible for the poor times turned...
From This Day Forward (RKO Radio) is a tardy but sincere filming of Thomas Bell's All Brides Are Beautiful, a novel (1936) about Depression in The Bronx. Its theme: the effort of decent, poor newlyweds to live as well as they can. Its thesis: love and fortitude can handle anything that economic injustice throws their way. The story is told mainly in flashbacks as Bill Cummings (Mark Stevens) goes through his old, familiar, woeful process of looking...