Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...names of the "Republocrats" in the House and Senate who have organized for the purpose of defeating President Truman's legislative program [TIME, March 25]? Since the aim of this coalition seems to be to keep wages down, the cost of living up and national health poor, is it not rather vital to the democratic process that the voters know who is supporting this program...
There were harsh words and bruised feelings quickly soothed, like Argentina's when she walked out, miffed at having missed a vice presidency. There was the poor, estranged relative waiting in the vestibule-Austria, whose bid to come in was turned down "with a note of sympathy." There was an inevitable sponger, Russia, who couldn't come herself but sent word by two neighbors, Czechoslovakia and Poland, that she could use a share of the League's leftover funds. There were bustling busybodies, unable to get their minds off last-minute arrangements, like China with her demand...
...Poorest State. The British Raj had given India a unified defense and a unified region of internal free trade. Jinnah would destroy both. His Pakistan, in northwest and northeast India, would be an agricultural state, poor in resources and industry, unless, improbably, the Hindus agreed to turn Hindu Calcutta over to Pakistan. Between mighty Russia to the north and the main body of India to the south, Pakistan would dangle like two withered arms. Only half the population of the area claimed for Pakistan is Moslem. None could claim that to split India in twain would solve the minority problem...
...warnings that a separate Pakistan would be poor and backward, Jinnah answers: "Why are the Hindus worrying so much about us? Let us stew in our own juice if we are willing. . . . [The Hindus] would be getting rid of the poorest parts of India, so they ought to be glad. The economy would take care of itself in time...
...hallmarks of undernourishment were glaringly apparent not only in dirt-poor Italy (whose 1,300 daily caloric intake in March was the lowest on the Continent). In other European countries, where more than 100,000,000 people were hungry, the familiar, sickening signs were cropping up. Health officials announced last week that Germany would be a vast clinical laboratory, providing the greatest opportunity in history to study malnutrition...