Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...asked a Londonderry Republican. "Those houses she's going to could have been put up down below on as level a piece of land as ever you saw, but it might have risked a Unionist majority, to put working-class Catholics in that district." He snorted. "So the poor woman has to climb the hill to save a Unionist vote...
...splurged on record-breaking holidays. The rich, kept from Manhattan and Europe by foreign-exchange restrictions, went to the home resorts. The new industrial classes, their pockets packed with inflated currencies, plunged into the pleasures of unaccustomed leisure. In such seaside capitals as Rio and Montevideo, even the underprivileged poor had a chance to play on world-famous beaches...
...itself, Rio's granfinos passed up the beaches for the cool mountain resorts of Petropolis and Teresopolis. Some Sao Paulo industrialists were different. They rolled down to Rio for a few weeks' fun on beaches, golf courses, race tracks. On Rio's shanty-shingled hillsides, purse-poor cariocas practiced carnival sambas every evening. The catchiest tune of the moment was no samba but a daffy little marcha parodying the United Fruit Co.'s singing commercial (Chiquita Banana) and titled Chiquita Bacana (Hot Baby...
...Sick & the Jailed. At 23, Joseph Pehm was ordained and went home to Csehimindszenty, where his mother proudly watched him celebrate his first Mass. In 1917 he went to teach in the small town of Zalaegerszeg, later became its parish priest. The parish he took over was in poor shape. He immediately started building a new church and a new school. He kept four cows and distributed milk to the undernourished children. He spent much time visiting the sick and the jailed. Soon he became a prisoner himself. When Bela Kun established his four months' Communist reign of terror...
...Hungarian Nazis finally arrested Mindszenty. Every Hungarian knows the story of how he walked to prison in his full robes, blessing the people as he went. When the Nazis took over his palace, they found stores of clothing he had collected for the poor. On this fact the Reds now base a charge that Mindszenty was arrested for hoarding 1,500 pieces of underwear. For five months, the Nazis kept Mindszenty in Sopron-Kohida prison...