Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...refuse in a vacant lot across from the Mission and talked about the wonders of Father Norman's Christmas party. Most of the adults, too, felt dimly aggrieved. Said Thomas Phillips, a merchant seaman: "If this guy Norman stole, he stole from the rich to give to the poor-sort of a Robin Hood, you might say. He loaned me $50 once. We're all for him around here...
Roddy McDowall, some very appealing horses, and skillful, if sometimes over-intense, technicolor have been thrown together in a game attempt to make "Thunderhead" palatable entertainment, but even Hollywood has no antidote for poor writing, miscasting, and haphazard direction. While horse fanciers and McDowall enthusiasts may thrill to "Thunderhead," the more critical will probably--and properly--consider it a mass of mistakes...
...point the President's voice seemed to give way, as his throat got hoarse. He sipped water, and continued. At all times, he had to battle against the poor acoustics of the hall. Some Administration friends were disturbed at the large amount of ad-libbing, thought that, when doing so, the President's voice seemed hesitant, uncertain. Others thought the ad-libbing increased the informal, chatty air of the talk...
...poor U.S. economic pundit who has not his own estimate of what the postwar national income and employment rate should be for prosperity...
...reporter, Baker still yearned to write fiction. He wrote to the Youth's Companion to ask their requirements. The Companion, he was informed, wanted stories of irreproachable moral tone, with well-devised plots, which would not revive sectional bitterness between North and South, or between rich and poor. Baker began to write such stories, fast. Once, staying at home while his wife and baby went to Michigan, he sat in the half-darkened dining room on hot summer mornings, went nowhere, saw no one, did not answer the doorbell, and finished a five-part serial for the Companion...