Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...commercial aviation and legislation against lobbies. At his death in 1931, Arkansas politicians could not agree on a successor; Mrs. Caraway was appointed to her husband's office. The next year Huey Long, eager to extend his political domain, brought his sound trucks into Arkansas and helped "the poor little widow lady" to become the first woman elected a U.S. Senator.* Thereafter, Huey Long could usually count on Senator Caraway's vote. In 1938, without Long, she squeezed by for her second elective term. By that time most housewives in Arkansas had received letters, often enclosing Government canning...
...Snapped Toronto's Globe and Mail: "Are you [the Government] men or mice. . . . Have we the guts to admit that our policy was dictated by political cowardice? . . . It is not a pretty challenge. Yet, in the language of the Government, it is proper and just. It is a poor defense for cowardice to scream 'Coward...
...city's well-worn victory guns boomed, and antiaircraft women on the roofs fired colored rockets. Against the wet sky, still pale with dusk, the fireworks made a poor show. The people wondered why this celebration had started so early. In the first week of the offensive, Citizen Stalin had issued the unprecedented number of three proclamations in one day. Was that number to be surpassed tonight...
...downtown Boston, Bob Hart and Steve Hebdon found the service very poor at the date bureau. They finally left with two WAC officers who apparently were also disappointed with the service...
Lady Diana Duff Cooper, one of England's most English beauties, onetime actress (in Max Reinhardt's The Miracle), now wife of the British Ambassador to Algiers, found North African markets poor, promptly borrowed a cow and set it to graze on the grounds of the British Embassy, also populated by two partridges, a gazelle. Lady Diana further astonished Algiers by practicing the dairymaid chore she had learned on her farm in Bognor, England-she milked...