Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...awkward sea legs, a stubby (5 ft. 2 in.) Japanese shambled last week into a white-walled ordnance classroom at the Washington Navy Yard. He wore a poor-quality, ill-fitting blue suit; there was nothing in his bearing or his sagjawed face, as expressionless as a teak deck, to show that he had been a commander in the Imperial Japanese Navy, commanding officer of the submarine I-58. He had left a wife and three small children at his house in bomb-battered Kure...
President Charles E. Wilson of General Motors ran a poor second...
...thought it had a sure-hit show, with "good schmalz." One official ex plained why the actual wedding ceremony was not broadcast: "We thought it would be in poor taste...
...President. For its new president, the 133-man N.A.M. board chose an example of what free enterprise has meant in America's past: Robert Ross Wason (rhymes with ah son), 57, president of Manhattan's Manning, Maxwell & Moore, Inc. (cranes, hoists, safety valves, etc.). Born a poor boy in Ashtabula, Ohio, Wason got his first job at eleven, worked his way through high school as a janitor. After graduation he worked as a longshoreman, blacksmith's helper and dock hand, and cub reporter on the Ashtabula Independent at $15 a week...
...brought into [the report]-apparently on the theory that Tojo and his military elements, who were moving on a world rampage, were not guilty, but that this Government of a peaceful people, with no preparations in the Pacific to fight, with no two-ocean navy, was the cause of poor innocent Tojo being dragged into...