Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...veteran James Wadsworth) agreed that Willkie's manner had been aggressive, some even said truculent. Willkie told Congressmen he could have the Presidential nomination if he wanted it; he was ready to go over their heads to the people. Old wiseheads, not hostile to Willkie, summed: a poor show...
Nearly everybody in the U.S. harbors organisms of trench mouth, may develop the disease if his resistance gets too low from poor nutrition or a bender. Then a bacillus and a spirochete (and sometimes other mouth germs) work together to produce tender, bleeding gums (medical name: Vincent's stomatitis) or throat and tonsil infections (medical name: Vincent's angina). Mouthwashing with hydrogen peroxide is one of the commonest treatments. But treatment usually goes on & on in serious cases...
...Stagg had still not had his fill of football. He took his second lifetime job, coaching at Pacific. As at Chicago, his wife was his chief scout. In ten years, with poor material, he won less than half his games. Pacific sometimes grumbled that the Old Man was aging and should gracefully retire. But Stagg stubbornly continued to teach his boys to play...
...tears as Lewis blatted: "My dear young child . . . you should have known . . . My God . . . I've been called nine kinds of s. o. b., but I've never been called an illiterate. . . ." An older newswoman promptly gave the Nobel Prize winner a proper scolding: "You scared that poor girl spitless...
...long depression and the poor recovery in the United States have badly distorted the ideas of businessmen (and of public officials and some economists) concerning what levels of production and employment are normal. Consequently, in the years immediately following the war most business enterprises are likely to plan too little production rather than too much...