Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ready to go a few rounds when the spotlight is on. Happy Chandler had appeared in the Senate ring, on occasion, as anti-British, anti-Russian, anti-New Deal. This time he was anti-rich folks. Cried he: "Mr. President, I sometimes wonder who won the election. . . . Instead of poor folks obtaining jobs, the Wall Street boys are obtaining jobs, and we are clearing everything with Harry Hopkins. ... I know very little about these nominees, [but] there are some questions I should like...
...women & children died beside the roads and were left. Said one American officer: "We passed three babies on the road who had been born less than twelve hours before. Two were dead, one was still alive." It was a scene from the Bible: the rich in their finery, the poor in their rags, and crows picking at the stripped bodies along the road...
...Ahmadabad, Mohandas K. Gandhi proposed a modest program: "I'll be really satisfied if Ahmadabad fulfills my cherished dream by achieving the following things: untouchability must be rooted out. Hindus and Moslems should live as brothers. Men & women should be leading a regulated life. Disparity between rich and poor should disappear. Drink, evil and also gambling should be abolished. People should be habitual khadi [homespun cotton cloth] wearers. People should observe ideal cleansing mentally and bodily. Nobody should starve in Ahmadabad. Carry out as much as you can of the above. What else? You have my blessing...
...rebuttal (chiefly by organized labor and reformers in & out of Government): 1) the poor do not have a free choice of physician now, and the bill proposes to give everyone this privilege; 2) doctors would make as much as they do now and those who wanted to keep on with private practice could do so; 3) standards of medical care would probably be raised-by giving physicians better access to expert consultation, modern equipment and technical help than individual practice ever could; 4) the bill's present administrative provisions are only suggestions; 5) there are parts...
Plastic Wedding. The silicones are a new type of plastic-an unusual wedding of organic and inorganic chemistry. Organic plastics have poor resistance to heat and cold; at extreme temperatures they become brittle or soft. This fault is overcome in the silicones by replacing the carbon atoms in organic compounds with a much tougher combination of silicon (basic ingredient of sand) and oxygen. The result is a material combining the flexibility of plastics with great resistance to heat, water and air. Some silicones can withstand temperatures from 60 below zero Fahrenheit to 575 above...