Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Timeless Treasure. The West finds it difficult to understand how Indians, at a moment when Japan is at their gates, can occupy themselves with opposition to Britain. The West cannot be expected to have a clear mental picture of the dirt-poor, uneducated majority of India's 389,000,000 people. If it did, the West might realize that most of them think they have very little to lose to Japan, and little knowledge of Japan to begin with. To fight, they would need a strong incentive...
...political office. Only seven months in his job, Governor Zárate thought the choice of topic indelicate. He moved resentfully over to the bar. Equally hurt, Fernando followed him, relieved his offended feelings by drawing his pistol on his political papa. The one-yard range compensated for poor visibility: Zárate slumped with six fatal slugs in the belly. Fernando fled. Later he was caught and jugged. The gun used on Zárate conveniently disappeared from the Federal District Police Chief's office while Fernando lolled in jail awaiting a whitewashing...
Farmers had forgotten their chronic worry: low prices and poor markets. Their orders were to produce; and they liked that, because AAAllotments had thwarted their marrow-deep instinct to plant, tend and harvest. Barring too many bugs, too much rain, too little rain, things should have looked good...
...only 34, a little pock-marked and addicted to sadism, but a man after the Hurs' hearts. They are a cattle-grazing tribe of some 100,000, whose poor homeland of sand, scrub jungles and marshes has made them perverse. They are Moslems, but they build their mosques facing away from Mecca and orthodox Moslems call them Lurs (the Unholy). Some 8,000 Hurs, the Lurs, are joined in blood brotherhood in fanatic support of Pir of Pagaro, whom they regard as God. They dress in green, salute each other by folding their arms on their chests, have nothing...
...year-old Publisher Powell was more talked about than acclaimed. Some said he was a hot shot who would fizzle out in a year. One Negro executive called him "a new and slightly pinko kid who hasn't got his feet wet yet." He was called "a poor imitation of Ralph Ingersoll." His journalism was described as the kind that "just brings down criticism on the heads of the whole Negro press...