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Word: poorly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Regarding poor little Sue Ingersoll and her inflammatory bathing suit [July 27]: Can anything be more apparent from this episode than that the Roman Catholic hierarchy is using any and every means to control our public life? Pretty soon we won't be able to do anything much in a public way without the permission of Archbishop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 17, 1959 | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

What a furor over a mere bathing suit! One is bound to feel sorry for the poor tormented celibates who find such things as girls-in-bathing-suits lust-inciting and damaging to morals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 17, 1959 | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

Your July 27 issue contained an article about Fabian. This article was obviously written by some poor, misled jerk. I hope that in the future you will have a little more respect for a great teen-age idol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 17, 1959 | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

...Hoffa brought New York City Teamsters locals into the union in 1955, with the help of Gangsters John ("Johnny Dio") Dioguardi and Anthony ("Tony Ducks") Corallo, under low wages and poor working conditions. Hoffa authorized labor contracts in Detroit under which Teamsters Union car-washers got as little as $2.50 for a ten-hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: To Hell with Them | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

...White, in all fairness, was nearly beside himself with misery resulting from poor health and financial difficulties. Only towards the end of the performance and during an instrumental blues interlude with bassist Al Lucas, whose busy, well articulated work here was a high spot of the night, was he in good form...

Author: By Myer Kutz, | Title: Josh White | 8/13/1959 | See Source »

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