Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Pundit Walter Lippmann last week: "The morale of the people is good when they are busy, excellent when they are very busy and poor to middling when they have nothing to do but think about the morale of someone else." In Congress, buck-passing the pension bill while Singapore fell, morale was very poor indeed...
...youngest Morgan son, Hugh, stands off and watches the action go by, and it is through his eyes that the picture is shown. Walter Pidgeon comes to the town as the local pastor, and acts as the moderator and go-between in the social problems which face the ever-poor miners. His counsel helps to avert violence during a long, hard winter when the miners are on strike. Maureen O'Hara, the eligible daughter, falls in love with Pidgeon, but he, fearing he can never offer her a big enough income, shuts himself in his church while the Oxford-trained...
...chances of holding Port Darwin are poor, according to de Haas. "It is not a strong base to begin with, and it is separated from the industrial southern part of Australia by miles of trackless desert. Once Darwin is lost our only hope will be to defend southern Australia...
Hitler snuggled as snugly as he could into his cloak of proletarian fervor. He contrasted himself again & again, the protector of the poor, with plutocratic foes. Lest Germans be disturbed, however, by thoughts that the Russians are also convinced proletarians of long standing, the country was plastered with posters showing German soldiers suffering from "Communistic dirt, filth, lice, disorganization, lack of most essential commodities...
...fiscal worries in the war years by printing money. They knew that fiscal reform, the main point of which had been Government assumption of the land tax, had not worked too well. They knew that mistrust of the Government's money had driven many Chinese, rich & poor, to selfish hoarding, particularly of rice...