Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Work. Charlie Wilson's big contributions to WPB have been his drive and his decision, his passion for order, his overwhelming desire to tackle production problems in specific terms and details. He has made some wrong guesses and poor decisions, but in the days when he first came to WPB not even many decisions, right or wrong, were being made...
...country has ever occupied in the history of Europe. Then you will have this country of Great Britain, with a glory and an honor and a prestige such as perhaps no nation has ever enjoyed in history. But from a material economic point of view she will be a poor country. She has put her body and soul and everything into it to win the battle of mankind. She will have won it, but she will come out of it poor in substance...
Tall, cheerful, benign, the son of a poor man who died soon after he was born, Confucius (551-478 B.C.) married at 19, fathered a son and two daughters, was put in charge of the granary of Baron Chi of Lu, became superintendent of herds and parks and at 22 began teaching philosophy and history. The sparse facts of his career form a clear pattern climaxing in his brief period of power as chief magistrate of Chung-tu when he was 52 and when, so potent was his example that "he was the idol of the people and flew...
Throughout most of the game, the Crimson acted like a poor high school team. It missed ten of its 12 foul shots and was unable to control the ball off either backboard...
...season of one-sided scores. Thanks to Navy and Marine transfers, 1943 football talent came in bunches or not at all. Because of Army's ban, more than 200 colleges had no teams. It was a season of poor kicking and few brilliant ends, and nobody could say why. It was a season in which spectators grew so dis gusted with out-of-bounds kickoffs that the Rules Committee may well make them illegal by next fall...