Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Poor Moods. Reading over the testimony that night, Nixon decided that Crosley and Whittaker Chambers must be the same man. Next morning a subcommittee decided on an immediate face-to-face meeting between Chambers and Alger Hiss. They hurriedly telephoned both to meet the subcommittee that afternoon in Manhattan's Commodore Hotel...
...spends some of his fortune for the public good. He gave $500,000 toward the building of Osmania University. Hyderabad City has the widest, cleanest streets in India, more and better looking hospitals than any other Indian city, a school for the deaf and blind, housing projects for the poor...
They complained, as prisoners always do, of poor food, but seemingly they had reason. Breakfast consists of a small cup of mate, sometimes with sugar, seldom with a biscuit. Meat, usually rotten, is served occasionally, but the dinner staple is corn and beans, which the prisoners eat seated on the floor...
Said a resident of El Fanguito last week: "When we came here, we had to wade through mud up to the knees. Munoz filled in the streets. Before he came into power, many people here lost their poor little homes because they could not pay their taxes. Now we pay no property tax. How shall I vote? For Munoz, all my life...
...Jones, it seemed, had a decided personal desire, all right. By last week, 71 patients had received treatment in Bath. From now on, free of charge, more & more of Britain's arthritic and rheumatic poor would share the tile-lined baths and rubbing rooms with the hypochondriacal and over-indulged rich...