Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Replied Planner Laski (whose remarks were punctuated with phrases like "my poor dear Johnston"): "If you . . . think that private enterprise is going to be so much more beneficial after this war . . . how do you account for the fact that we went from the last war straight into the depression of 1929?" Snapped Enterpriser Johnston: "I am amazed that a man like you would make a statement of that kind. . . . We are finding out in the United States today that there is no such thing as overproduction." When Laski brought up the well-known fact that so-called free enterprise...
Seven years later he died and was buried among the poor people of Cork. Today his grave is still a place of pilgrimage, covered with pathetic rags and flowers which admiring Catholic teetotalers leave behind...
...soft, welcoming grass, for space is limited at Wellesley this year, for the Naval Supply School has put a waterproof cover over Cazenove and Pomeroy dorms and no little droplets can get in. So it will be close quarters for the little adorables this year and no single rooms, poor things, but a droplet is a droplet, boys, so lift your fingers high and catch...
...hard time finding him. A conscientious, hard working civil servant, adept at answering letters, his days are busy with matters of state (e.g., settling claims for a recent orphanage fire). He passes as few nights as possible with the metropolitan arty crowd; among them he is a good drinker, poor conversationalist. He prefers the talk at the tough bars and quayside pubs...
There were more & more patients. The hospital moved back & back. The nurses learned to dive for slit trenches. The weather got hot. Food ran short and was often so poor that Grindlay could not digest it. It began to be time to abandon Burma altogether. Dr. Seagrave began to try to gather up all his people from the outpost hospitals and his old home at Namkham. He corralled nearly all of them. Most of the nurses elected to go along with him to India...