Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flooded with local invitations. Many country Britons write, mentioning lovely gardens, usually ending up offering: "Make this your home while you are here." Officers have picked up, and like, the afternoon-tea habit. They are fluently using general slang such as "Browned off," "Good show," "I take a very poor view of that," say petrol for gas, use R.A.F. expressions like "gen" for general information, make constant use of "actually." Many visit R.A.F. stations. They greatly admire the fighter, coastal and bomber commands...
...discussing the problem, Professor Gilbert will treat the obstacles we have met in designing our fighting planes, about which we have had no practical experience. He feels that we have had especial difficulties in designing pursuit planes, for which he considers our first plans very poor...
...Prestamos (pawnshop) paid off again last week. On July 9 (Independence Day), as it does on New Year's Day and May 25 (May Revolution Day), the Banco returned without charge the sewing machines, typewriters, plumber's wrenches and carpenter's tools which Argentina's poor had pawned and were still too poor to redeem...
...reports circulated that he would resign before home rule arrives to give way to a President-appointed native chief executive, Reformer Tugwell was in Washington pleading for more food for the 1,869,245 Puerto Ricans. Despite the temporary boom caused by military expansion, the island is still desperately poor. Many of its children are underfed, much of its population (31.1%) is illiterate. The wages of the jibaros who work the sugar plantations are woefully low. Both U.S. and native politicos knew that self-government might gladden the hearts of the people but it would not solve their economic woes...
...says "Ship me a bag of good dirt to eat." Sometimes he means it. Even in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta, Negroes and whites send requests to their upcountry friends for a bit of red clay, declaring that black Delta soil is "right bad eating." In certain parts of Mississippi, poor whites will walk miles for a spoonful of dirt from a favorite bank of clay, because it "tastes sour, like a lemon." In other sections of the South, some top their meals with a savory tablespoon of dirt, believing that it is "good for them," despite its constipating effects...