Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Poor, Dumb People...
...opinions and attitudes insinuated into your news stories are often so sensible and so contrary to the baloney the rest of the press serves us, that I wonder at your little swipes at Congress. Why do you pick on them so? They are only poor, dumb people like us, trying to get along, and working under difficult conditions...
...Chinese Government, stung by the Perry incident and a scorching New York Times editorial, made reply. Spokesman was the ablest of China's three governmental mouthpieces-young Dr. P. H. Chang, who speaks for the cabinet. Dr. Chang blithely kissed off the controversy as a misunderstanding. A poor translation had made the regulations read as if the supervisors were "to guide and control thought and conduct"; actually the correct translation was "to guide the thoughts and control the actions of students abroad." As for the training a student had to receive before going abroad-that was simply to teach...
...instead of twelve good ones; the speculator who buys needed products cheap, hoards them, makes them scarce, and sells them at high prices; the Comisariato [Board of Price Administration]-intended to lower prices-which works in league with the speculators. . . . And the prices go up and up, and the poor people suffer for it because they cannot dance to this rhythm...
...Chilean is naturally kind and unmercenary. The urge to earn money which moves him is-in the rich-largely a need to kill time and a lack of vision. In the poor it is the need to eat, to drink, and to rest and rest...