Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Salvemini picked up the Saturday morning Traveler and then began a series of interrupted phone calls that muttered dangerous Italian into the carphones of poor Boston reporters, who get stories, for their living...
...what happened next: "The Japs who got through to one of our litter cases propped the man against a tree and five Japs took turns bayoneting him. I got three of them. . . . We saw Japs pull blankets off litter cases and line them up. ... They cut one of the poor lads from the top of his head to his feet, meanwhile laughing deliriously. Then they shot him through the head...
...names of things, 150 of qualities, 100 of "operations," or important relations between other words. Eighteen, the "operators," are Basic's only verbs; put to gether with other Basic words they do the work of 4,000 verbs. This, for some, is the poor point of Basic for writing that is bright and interesting, because verbs are the strong words of full English...
...pleasant, nutty flavor, so cheap to produce (10? a lb.) that the British Government has started building a plant in Jamaica to make 2,000 tons of Thaysen's "food yeast" a year.* Chemist Thaysen at most expected to serve his yeast in concentrated doses to supplement a poor diet; despite its pleasant flavor, he did not conceive of Torula utilis as a candidate to upset the world's food economy...
...commonplaces of liberal thought makes the very texture of Forster's novels. . . ." The theme of Forster's first novel, Where Angels Fear To Tread, is the "violent opposition between British respectability and a kind of pagan and masculine integration" in the character of Gino Carella. "For the poor, lost, respectable British people, Gino may serve as the embodiment of the masculine and pagan principle, but Forster knows that he is also coarse, dull, vain, pretentious, facilely polite and very much taken with the charms of respectability...