Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dead. The revolt, largely military, failed because its officer leaders did not arm civilians. Now the civilians, aghast at the blood bath which followed, were taking .belated part. The country seethed with hatred for Martinez. Rich and poor all loathed and feared him. The people were on strike. They refused to buy Government lottery tickets, go to Government movie theaters. Druggists, doctors, lawyers, justices of the peace, hundreds of Government employes declined to work. Railroad workers struck. The schools, the National University were closed; both students and staff stayed away. Priests supported the movement. A mass for the souls...
...Navy strategist, and a poor sailor as well. But he conceived his job to be that of a civilian link between the Navy and the nation, not a teacher of admirals. Mostly he bustled about, trying to instill his own brand of peppy patriotism into war workers and servicemen alike. As the Navy's most-traveled Secretary, he visited Pearl Harbor a few days after December 7, and saw Guadalcanal, England and the Mediterranean...
Millionaire Funkhouser is board chairman of O'Sullivan Rubber Co. ("America's No. 1 Heel"), an evangelist by temperament, a Republican by adoption. He left West Virginia a poor boy, came back rich at 50 to spend "the afternoon of my life with my own people." That afternoon is being spent in considerable comfort in a 34-room mansion near Charles Town built in 1820 by a grandnephew of George Washington, and "restored" last year by Mrs. Funkhouser. His opponents like to point out that he teaches Sunday School in one wing of the mansion and plays poker...
...priest for 60 years, a bishop for 43, a cardinal for 33, the prelate's life was a series of successive honors conferred by his Church. Born in Lowell, the eleventh and youngest child of poor and pious Irish parents, young O'Connell began his career in a textile mill. But after one hour's work he heard God's voice: "Child, this is not thy place." His place, he decided, was in the Church...
Mississippi Mud. Heidelberg, a dirt-poor whistle stop (pop. 615) in the red-clay hills of Jasper County, Mississippi, is the proud site of the largest gusher east of the Mississippi River. With nine derricks sticking up through its cow-dunged streets (one derrick is in the yard of its red-brick schoolhouse), and a tent town of oilmen and their families on its outskirts, Heidelberg is a major oil field-thanks to Gulf Refining's Lewis-Morrison No. 1. Lewis-Morrison produced 2,500 bbl. in a choked-down 24-hr, run last week, and the roughnecks around...