Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dissension. But the big nation delegates could not succeed in shushing down small or poor nations on all questions (each participating Government has an enual vote). When the U.S. and Britain proposed that UNRRA relief be given free to postwar Germany if she was unable to pay, the small nations rose in storm. With a violent and tumultuous "no" they voted down the proposal. Said they: Germany must pay for all the relief it gets...
...lion sauntering down Broad Street could scarcely have disconcerted Philadelphians more than the news that for six years a leper had been wandering in their midst. Very red were the faces of some Philadelphia doctors. For the victim, a poor 67-year-old Russian Jew, with the typical leonine face of a skin leper, has been in & out of half a dozen Philadelphia clinics, where he was treated for body lice, sinus trouble, hardening of the arteries, a broken hip. At last doctors at Presbyterian Hospital, after treating him off & on for two years, diagnosed his most important ailment. Leprosy...
...this time audacity's returns were poor. Vatutin had overextended himself, as he did in another crucial offensive west from Kharkov last spring. Without artillery support, the cavalry could not withstand strong German counterattacks. Last week it abandoned Zhitomir, in the first major reverse in the Red Army's great, 18-week offensive. The retreat was has tened by fierce German blows at the Russian flank east of Zhitomir...
...Money. Casimir John Myslinski is a remarkable footballer, a vicious tackier, shrewd defense strategist and certain to be the center on more than one All-America. He is even more remarkable as a man. Like another poor boy who made a good record at West Point, John Joseph Pershing, he overcame tremendous handicaps to get there...
Worms & Snails. The M. & St. L. was a rackety, poor man's railroad long before it slipped into receivership in 1923. Begun in the '70s by Minneapolitans eager to challenge Chicago's monopoly of Midwestern railroading, the line stretched itself into 1,690 miles of jerkwater track running north & south across Minnesota and Iowa, with branches to Peoria and Leola, S. Dak. It never got to St. Louis-and from the day its first track was laid, it was more often in than out of the courts. Its debt was too high, its farm traffic too meager...