Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When dealing with people who are clearly rich or poor, in the old fashioned sense of these words, the 'needs' test was simple and efficient," he continued. "Now there aren't many rich and we don't see many poor...
...high French government official last week of Edouard Leclerc, a young (32), socially minded and devout Frenchman who is sparking a revolution in French food-selling practices. Leclerc, who started out by studying to be a Roman Catholic priest, changed his mind, and decided that he could help the poor more by donning a grocer's apron and bringing down the cost of living. Nine years ago, with $40, he opened a stall behind his house in Landerneau, near Brest, offering staple groceries only 8% above cost. Today some 30 Leclerc-sponsored groceries are operating in Brittany, Normandy...
There is no good reason to slip on down to the Brattle this week; any book would be easier going. The Red and the Black deals exam period diversion a death blow. Claude Autant-Lara has allowed himself to be carried away with the pathetic figure of a poor downtrodden peasant of the French Empire. He fails to recall that Stendahl saw Julien Sorel's answer to constricting French society as understandable, but not laudable. Sorel is no hero of the poor, he is simply the unfortunate...
Clinical candor about sex and the uncommuncative discourse of the hipster are poor substitutes for sound thought and mature craftsmanship, whch explains why so few of the works of the Beat literati have been interesting, let alone readable. Easy Living, at least, is comprehensible, but the hippies who hop in and out of the beds Zane has made for them are, on the whole, lifeless forms. Rarely to they seem human; often they seem to be nothing more than sex machines. One more pot of hashish or an additional romp in the love bed could not save the book. Zane...
...Crimson's final margin was 10 points over B.U., as the Engineers' poor finishes pushed them into third position and out of the nationals. B.U. will also compete at Brown, since the top two teams become eligible...