Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Poor Crimson Tackling...
Palmiro Togliatti was back. Three months after his attempted assassination (TIME, July 26), he still looked pale; his voice no longer seemed to carry the old, metallic ring. When Togliatti appeared at a Communist rally in Rome last week, a plump countrywoman wiped her eyes. "Poor dear," she said. "He must still be ill, he's not his old self...
...dogs dropped in for tidbits. Not far from the Pantheon, the traditional rendezvous of Roman cats, a spinsterish old woman called pleadingly to her bloated black & white cat, which feasted from a rubbish heap. In a nearby cafe, brawny comrades jeered. The old woman turned on them: "If the poor thing dies from indigestion, you will be to blame, you rebels...
...last week won a victory in a place where it least deserved one, a suppurating slum called the Gorbals that sprawls southward from the rat-ridden wharves of Scotland's Glasgow. Most of the Gorbals' massive grey granite houses were built a century ago when thousands of poor laborers began to arrive in Glasgow. Now 85,000 human beings cram its 252 acres. In many of its tenements 30 people share a single doorless toilet, and the odor of garbage hangs heavy in the stairwells. There is an undertaker on every other block. A Gorbals girl summed...
Doctors never get rich by treating silicosis. A poor man's disease, silicosis hits miners and other workers in dusty places. In remote mining valleys, in slums near dust-ridden factories, the victims drag out their lives, struggling for each breath. Silicosis is by no means rare. It causes more than 20% of the "natural deaths" among the anthracite miners of Pennsylvania. In eight hard-coal counties, there are 1,000 new cases a year. But little has been done thus far to check or cure the disease...