Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that the Tribune had made a deal with its onetime friend-shrewd Democratic Mayor Edward J. Kelly. (A more likely explanation was current in Chicago newspaper circles: that Tribune Managing Editor James L. Maloney had broken some confidential information from "Curly" Brooks.) Faherty had turned out to be a poor campaigner; there was nothing to do but give him the sack...
General MacArthur announced that the Buna area had been cleaned up. Between Buna and Gona a pocket of Jap jungle fighters remained on Sanananda Point, their number unknown, their lives a poor risk, even though victory in New Guinea is as elusive as Tojo's motionless...
...back into National Socialism's moldy files to find old words and give them new meaning. It was a long time since he had tried to sell socialism to the German people, since he had stressed the fight against the capitalists, the bloated moneybags who fattened on the poor man's labor. It was almost as though on this New Year's Day he was trying, as he did when Naziism was only a party, to win his people over to the Nazi creed: >"Russia . . . prepared her world struggle in the name of socialist states, with...
...tomorrow? Such layoffs have indeed occurred all too often. The deer-hunting season, for example, coincided with material shortages so severe that General Motors instructed its plant superintendents to let any worker go who wanted to shoot deer. Result: G.M.'s "absent for personal reasons" figures soared. Poor transportation, bad housing, lack of household help also discourage workers from regular attendance...
Hull House's founder, Jane Addams, in the 19th Century spirit, believed in the social adjustment and education of the alien poor. Miss Carr thought that times had changed, that organization and political pressure were now the best ways for slum dwellers to better their...