Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like to put in a word for Farmer East. You have put your finger on the inadequacies of our poor farmers in Vermont, but at the same time suggested a solution. All they need to get them out of the doldrums is a two-story pipe organ in each and every farmhouse. Then they can bat out Bach's Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring to their heart's content, without the annoying interruption of having to run out to the barn and pull switches for ten minutes...
...will fare better at London's hands than at those of the white settlers of Rhodesia. When Nyasaland is on its own, he says, he would keep a number of European Cabinet Ministers (even the most sympathetic Europeans are appalled by his lack of economic realism about a poor country that must be heavily subsidized to stay alive). An emotional, erratic man, he warned just before being carted off to jail: "They will stop nothing by my arrest. Nyasaland is awake...
...Hungarian villager recently slipped out to a friend abroad: "Again today eight people have been taken to the party district committee. You cannot imagine what their fate will be. G. was cruelly beaten yesterday. His hair was torn out, and he was kicked and then sat upon. The poor man continued to say, 'I won't sign.' In A. [a neighboring village] things are the same. They beat up 29 people and forced them to join collectives. There is not a day that passes that 40 or 50 men don't come through the village looking...
...beam, the blind leading the blind, that which is hidden and must be revealed, the prophet not without honor save in his own country, "to him that has shall be given," leaving one's father and mother to follow Jesus, and some of the Beatitudes, e.g., the poor having the kingdom of heaven. Many parables are also included: the sower, the thief in the night, the tares, the mustard seed, the marriage feast, the wicked tenants, the pearl, the hidden treasure...
...them, and the undergraduate who does not plan to go to graduate school or become a father becomes, to all intents and purposes, a draft dodger. In the face of an increase in manpower due to population growth, the Defense Department is deferring large groups of men for poor reasons and offering a militarily unrealistic six-month program in the bargain...