Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Those pickets around his Washington apartment? Humph! "When those poor scums read my new book-entitled Separation or Mongrelization, Take Your Choice-I'll bet they'll throw up a picket line a mile long...
...Those poor scums say they are going to picket my place every day that I sit in the Senate. I told them the other day they might as well get ready for 13 more years, because I have one more year to serve under my present term, and I intend to run for re-election two more times...
...same time the Soviet-zone press triumphantly reported a resolution by Communist and Social Democratic leaders favoring a merger of their parties. Without it, the Communists stood a poor chance at the polls. The Soviet-zone press failed to report that the Social Democrats had set conditions: both parties must be organized on a national scale and the merger approved by majority vote of the Socialist rank & file. The Socialists did not want to repeat the fatal rivalry of the 19205; but they obviously sought to evade Russian pressure for an outright merger's kiss of death...
...Poor Relations...
Experience has taught Drs. Blalock and Taussig that the best age for the operation is between three and twelve. Under three, arteries are so small they are hard to work with; after twelve, poor circulation may have done permanent brain and lung damage. Before each operation, the surgeons tell the parents that the risks are great. Fathers, they have found, are the timid ones. Mothers usually say to go ahead...