Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have no evidence as to what really may have brought these two most rational persons, under no illusion about each other or their mutual position and commitments, to think of such an irrational marriage." The elder Santayana, one of twelve children, with the Spanish "dignity in humility," poor, meager, deaf, a painter, a law student, a quoter of Quintilian, solid and grey as the rocky heath of Avila where he used to walk with his young son George, consented when his wife returned to Boston with George and his half brother and half sisters. "How much in this was clearness...
...churning. Sore beset is Miss Franken's doctor heroine (Barbara O'Neill) whose neurologist beau (Philip Ober) doubts whether a woman can qualify as a good surgeon. No sooner is he proved wrong than he starts doubting whether a good surgeon can qualify as a woman. The poor girl, meanwhile, is in an awful pickle about disregarding professional ethics in order to save a little boy's life...
...have just read your article "Poor Relations" in the issue...
...Romanoglio went off to war when Mussolini gave the order. They were poor, illiterate, confused and greedy. Those who still live and have made their way home are working on the roads, which, like pruning their olive trees and trimming their cabbage, is work they understand. The price they paid can be totted up in the piles of rubble that once were their homes. For there is nothing left of Romanoglio but the power of the peasantry to live...
General Weather. Fog, rain, snow, tide, wind and moon will have much to do with the timing. Cold, rainy, foggy January and February are poor invasion months. March is better, though its winds can play havoc with shallow-bottomed craft. Treacherous, unpredictable Channel fogs are no worse in March than in any other month...