Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...batting was in general poor, with the average batsman tending to hit below the ball and late. Probably the outstanding example of the tendency to hit late was Lindell's game-winning home run into right field in the second inning; Conroys two-base floater along the first base line in the sixth and Metkovitch's two stupendous misses before he tripled in the second corroborated the impression...
Local advisers had warned him that the speech he planned to make would be poor politics in a town where fully two-thirds of the people are of German descent. That made no difference to Wendell Willkie. To 3,000 listeners in the Civic Auditorium of little Norfolk, Neb. (pop. 10,490) that evening, the big man proudly recalled his early and potent support of Lend-Lease, Selective Service and other war measures which most Republican professionals opposed. With strong hands and heavy voice he hammered away at his familiar arguments for international cooperation and all-out, sacrificial war, hoarsely...
...England. He studied the problem of permanent unemployment as voluminously as and at much closer quarters than prolix Beatrice & Sidney Webb (Constitution for the Socialist Commonwealth of Great Britain). Through the Church he encouraged interdenominational efforts to spread social service, free medical services, homes and nurseries for poor children, recreational clubs. Through the Church and the Government, he fought for slum clearance, boosted low-price housing projects, and the establishment of more parks, playgrounds and country camps for children. The influence of the quiet garden at Tongham lingered, in the resentful realism with which he described (In the Heart...
...Even when referred to with admiration, the infantry are almost always called foul names. The British designation for the doughboy: P.B.I. (poor bloody infantry). *Flying pay in the Air Forces is given for flying, not for combat, and is a hangover from peacetime, when it was given for the extra hazards involved...
...plot, she has little more to offer than that Karl Marx is no match for Dan Cupid. In terms of comedy, she can only let her flighty, bird-brained heroine chatter on for three long acts. Now & then the chatter is funny-"Everybody needs money these days, even the poor"; perhaps an act of it is fun. After that, it is pretty much an assault upon the eardrums...