Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fourth Term for President Roosevelt. It seems to me that the people of this country have enough to worry about right now in winning this war. We are not and should not be interested at this time in a political war of 1944, and I think it was very poor taste of your magazine to confront us with that problem...
...over the target right on time and spent 20 minutes before dropping all our eggs. Several times we got caught in the lights, but I managed to sideslip out of them each time. . . . The Flak was relatively light. I guess the Jerries must have been holding it for the poor fellows caught in the lights. We saw one Halifax caught in a cone of about 50 lights with the Jerries pumping streams into the apex until it exploded and slowly spiraled down...
...Poor Joe," crowed Conn. "He's going on 29 and hasn't had a fight since he knocked out Abe Simon last March. In my book Joe's a dead pigeon...
Meanwhile the public thought the Navy was "hot stuff" and the Navy was "inordinately flattered by a boastful press." From the Philippines Sims sent a report to the Navy Department in Washington showing that the battleship Kentucky, current pride of the fleet, was a very poor fighting machine-"not a battleship at all." Assigned to the old cruiser Brooklyn, he immediately began tearing her apart in a report, remarked: "I invite you to take a look at the wreck of the Brooklyn when I get through with her." Of the monitor Monterey at Canton, he made only an informal complaint...
...down, so they buy War Bonds. But they may be overlooking how, where, and when their money is being used. If we don't use the right to vote, which we are fighting to keep, and use it conscientiously, all the War Bonds in the world will be a poor weapon...