Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...decree, with all that it might mean for the poor and virtually unorganized workers of rich Argentina, ordered: 1) 10% to 25% pay increases, retroactive to Dec. 1; 2) an annual bonus equal to one month's earnings for Argentines earning less than 1,000 pesos ($250) a month. Domestics, Government employes, utilities workers were excluded. To enforce the law a National Salaries Institute was created...
...Associated Press took some stern lecturing at the hands of prosecutors and the courts. Last week it got a dressing-down from one of its own members. To Editor James Kerney Jr. of Trenton's little Evening Times (circ. 54,381), it seemed that A.P. had acted with poor grace when the Supreme Court told it to mend its ways (TIME...
Dost thou hear, Hal? thou knowest in the state of innocency Adam fell; and what should poor Jack Falstaff do in the days of villainy? Thou seest I have more flesh than another man, and therefore more frailty...
Offstage Richardson is a complete homebody, living near Hampstead Heath with his wife and infant son. He is never seen in nightspots, and totes books to the theater to read between acts. He has never been rich, never-in his own estimation-poor: "I've been down to five pounds, but then that's quite...
...second half of the play satirizes a group of modern debunkers who skeptically visit St. Anthony's tomb, gloatingly find it empty. But after they have gone Anthony reappears, praising the faith of a poor postcard hawker who has continued to believe...