Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high-crossed t's and un-dotted i's, the Marseille system, basically, studies the consistency or inconsistency of style, the degree of integration revealed in an individual's handwriting; rates the subject accordingly as: 1) very good risk; 2) fairly reliable; 3) dishonest; 4) poor budgeter, probably harassed by bill collectors...
...bottom: very good risk, fairly reliable, dishonest, poor budgeter...
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, leafing through a muscle-building magazine, set eyes on an article by Charles Atlas in which the Muscle Mahatma expressed pity for "the poor little chap" Gandhi and offered to build him up, for nothing. Exclaimed Gandhi: "I have met some inventive Americans, but Atlas takes the first prize...
Geographic obstacles and poor communications should not be permitted to dim the value of this front. Retrospective foresight would recommend that the estimated losses of a year be concentrated and accepted in an offensive that would not only eject the Japanese from Karafuto [southern half of Sakhalin] but follow them into Hokkaido, with Honshu [the main Japanese island] and Tokyo as the objective. This is direct war in its simplest form. Because the successive fronts are narrow, Japan's advantage in numbers would not prove decisive. Because of the wild nature of the northern Nipponese islands, the resourcefulness...
...There's a new spirit abroad," beams that infallible master of misinformation, Sir Joseph, "I see it on every side." "And poor booby," Waugh concludes, "he was bang right...