Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reporters dubbed him "the poor man's candidate." He addressed 400 A.F.L. unionists in Bridgeport, Conn., the annual convention of the United Hebrew Trades in Atlantic City, a Liberal Party meeting in New York. In Worcester, Mass, he lit into Dewey's statement on atomic energy: "Someone should point out to the governor of New York that it was the 'dead hand' of Government which created the atomic bomb." His good temper was unfailing. Asked by New Haven reporters if he thought the ticket was going to win, he retorted with a grin: "Certainly. What...
...fact is that too often our own Government . . . seems to have so far lost faith in our system of free opportunity as to encourage this Communist advance, not hinder it ... Communists and fellow travelers [have] risen to positions of trust in our Government ... On that very day when a poor distraught schoolteacher ventured death to jump to freedom . . . the head of our own Government called the exposure of Communists in our Government 'a red herring...
Pundit Walter Lippmann, who sometimes writes like a pellucid angel, sometimes like poor Poll, got his claws tangled with his beak last week in the New York Herald Tribune: "It was never possible, we must I believe suppose, that we could induce the Russians to lift the blockade unless...
...Baseball, What Is That?" San Francisco, where Joe grew up, is still the city he knows best. He comes from an old-fashioned Italian family, poor to begin with, but proud of each other and extremely close-knit. His parents, who had come from Isola delle Femmine, an islet off the coast of Sicily, had a ground-floor flat on Taylor Street, on the slope of Russian Hill. Joe was the eighth of nine children...
...dancing a strange dance. Suddenly the wind fanned the flames, and the eerie light shone up into their faces. I recognized several deans and at least one House Secretary. I couldn't figure it out at the time, but looking back, I feel sure they were expunging some poor chap's name. God rest his soul...