Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Look at my hands, the hands of the poor...
...scoffed at Tory demands in Parliament that the Sarawak State Council pass on her husband's proposal. "Poor darlings, don't they understand? The Sarawak people agree to anything the Raja wants. It's just a case of a few leading ones squatting on the verandah and saying, 'Yes, Raja!' But they don't like Anthony Brooke-he's got a power complex. If he wants a game of golf, he phones the police to have the road cleared for his car. If we want a game, we walk...
Like everything else in Paris, the Club des Cinq, at the foot of Montmartre, was down at heel. The decor-very modern—was shabby; the champagne-very expensive-was poor. The worn-looking, faded singer who came on half an hour after midnight matched the setting well. She had frizzled brown hair, a little black dress and cork-soled shoes. She was called La Piaf (Parisian argot for sparrow...
...president, ruddy and reserved Gwilym Alexander Price, 50, works almost as smoothly. A poor boy in Canonsburg, Pa., he clerked in a Pittsburgh law office to earn his way through the University of Pittsburgh law school. Then he went to work in 1923 as a trust officer for the Peoples-Pittsburgh Trust Co. Steadily, quietly, he rose to the presidency...
Publisher George A. Sloan of the Southern Agriculturalist chimed in with "We have depended too much on outside help and not enough on our own resources. . . . Politics in a free domestic economy is a poor substitute for scientific research and sound merchandising...