Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whose leaders have already voted against--the Catholic Church. Unfortunately they have twisted this purely social-medical issue into a religious one. Though their motives may be sincere and devout, at the same time they are doing a great injustice to one economic group within the State, those too poor to afford a private doctor. The, Catholic Church has not meant to divide this issue along class lines any more than do other groups which hate class distinctions. But, regardless of the motive, to outlaw proper birth control information is to deny the poorest families of the State knowledge they...
...British fired the shipyards, coal, iron, lumber and cement center of Kiel. Pathfinder planes overcame poor visibility by dropping hundreds of flares. The bombers followed with 4,000 tons of explosive-more hell than Kiel had caught in any of the previous 69 raids. Ten planes failed to return...
Hollandsche Biefstuk. The proprietor of the Restaurant Royal in The Hague, where Hollandsche Biefstuk was a specialty, used to say: "My patrons eat me poor and drink me rich." They drank him rich no more. Holland's food ration was cut as winter approached. The Nazis announced that all men capable of bearing arms would be conscripted for service in Germany ("Dutchmen must not only work with their hands, they must also use weapons to guard Europe"). To enforce their decree the Nazis said that Dutch parents "who do not collaborate in the new order will have their children...
...replaced by passionate Republicanism. He wrote an ode to the revolutionaries who ousted Charles X (1830). After King Louis-Philippe abdicated (1848), Hugo, now an Academician and ily's insanity. Bethel was judged insane, sent to a sanitarium for 20 years. At that point Sister Lerryn discovered that poor Bethel was not really a Treveryan after all-just "a child Mama had that had not been Papa's." For reasons "we shall never know" Mama had chosen to keep quiet, and to ruin her daughter's happiness. But to bring up all this now would invalidate...
...democratic governments to rally men to the cause of democracy, the biggest democracies of the United Nations have not yet got down to business. Last week two extraordinary statements-one by a prominent American, the other by one of Britain's most respected papers-showed by contrast how poor a job the United Nations had yet done of stating what democrats fight...