Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...small, frail man," Mydans wrote. "He is intense, nervous and understanding. He is overwhelmed by the gifts he is receiving from America and wants to do the most he can with the funds. He explains, however, that with all the sickness and poorness of the people around him, 'it is difficult not to give to people in great want. I can not help it,' he says, 'but sometimes I feel it is more important to give to the sick and poor than to build my church...
...compounds. Professor Tinbergen tells how he bothered a herring gull horribly by putting a red wooden egg in her nest. The shape and size of the egg were correct; they tended to release the gull's incubating reaction. But the red color touched off an attack reaction. The poor confused mother fought an exhausting battle between conflicting drives, until the "sitting drive" dominated long enough to allow her to sit down. She could feel the egg's tender shape beneath her, but could not see its color. So she finally settled down, in peace, to incubate...
With his grease crayon, Duffy worries mostly about politics (he is not fond of politicians of any variety), peace and the plight of the poor taxpayer. The rest of the time he worries about horses. On almost any good afternoon Duffy can be found at the track. As long as they're running at Pimlico, Baltimore does not expect to lose Duffy for good...
Around them was a great, illiterate, hot-tempered, lazy group of poor whites-in De Forest's district they were called "the low-down people"-the descendants of farmers whose farms had been bought by the planters. In this class, two-thirds of the men had been killed or crippled in the war. They were wretched beyond description, living in cabins with hencoop sides and porous roofs. Wrinkled, filthy, with desperate eyes and unkempt hair, they chewed tobacco, drank, fought, lived a life "of rare day's works, some begging, some stealing, much small, illicit bargaining, and frequent...
...Yorker like the inside of your favorite foulard. The humor depends too much on anagrams (Sawdorf-Postoria) and burlesques of well-known situations to suit our taste (the Thurber take-off scrambles grandfather, the attic bed and the six-cylinder Reo of Columbus, Ohio, fame in rather poor fashion). Good parody, it seems to us, should be funny in itself; but we hate to quibble and if you know what they're taking off from, the Namlerep piece and the Leigh Profile are both top-notch. We can't wait for the Lampoon parody of Strength & Health...