Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Third Count. Joyce's defense counsel (provided free under the Poor Persons Act) set up a simple and formidable defense: that Joyce was not a British subject. First Secretary H. E. Stebbins of the U.S. Embassy in London testified that Joyce's Irish father had become a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1894 (which, under U.S. law, would automatically make William a U.S. citizen...
...small and barren office, Damaskinos labored for the poor and oppressed. His philanthropies, though not connected directly with any one resistance movement, also succored the men in the hills. He banded his clergy into the EOCHA (National Organization of Christian Solidarity) to help those interned by the occupying powers. So popular was this organization that on several occasions quisling Greeks tried to exploit it. Damaskinos fiercely resisted, kept politicians' hands off. Toward occupation's end, the frustrated Germans put Damaskinos under house arrest...
...schools ("my oldest son enters the fourth grade soon . . . in three years he has had very little actual knowledge offered him. [He] can barely write"); 3) the city employes ("what a sorry lot . . . barely a day goes by but what some policeman or two run down some poor defenseless Negro...
...this way-we are reorganizing our Berlin circus. You see, I am an acrobat. But it is about our three bears. They were evacuated to us from the south and now, poor things, we have no way to feed them." Long, crimson-tipped fingers were spread in an appealing gesture of helplessness...
Ilka Chase, professional wit and author (In Bed We Cry), advised women to marry younger men, explained: "Men, poor things, age so quickly after they're married. . . . The older wife is the ideal combination of what every boy craves: she's mother-wife-mistress, the 3-in-1 bargain package...