Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vehicle to carry him from shanty to lace curtains, developed two tricks to grease the passage. He haunted public libraries, feasted on Shakespeare, Dumas, Dickens and Thackeray, became a silver-throated orator. And he played skillfully and sometimes shamelessly on the pride and privation of Boston's Irish poor...
...years, thousands of wretched victims of this century's upheavals have learned to know the heart of Father Pire -"the heart open on the world." In 1938 he set up a nationwide organization to help the poor, during the war ran holiday camps for children who had been evacuated from the cities, and at night served in stealth as a chaplain with the Belgian resistance. Then, one day in 1949. he heard a lecture by a U.S. UNRRA official describing the plight of Europe's D.P.s. "It was such heartbreak," recalls Georges Pire, "such despair that it suddenly...
...will support welfare programs to attract workers. Said one prelate: "The church in Latin America has awakened to the fact that Christian sociology is not incompatible with a great number of modern social concepts. The church believes in narrowing the gap between classes. There will always be rich and poor, but they need not be so far apart as they are in Latin America...
...shifting targets, a major problem. It used to be primarily a disease of the oft-diapered, well-scrubbed upper-income groups, whose infants were protected against the mild (often undetectable) infections that give immunity against later and more serious attacks. Things were different with the infants of the poor, who lived amid filth, got an infection in their first few months while still protected by passive immunity from inherited antibodies. Now the better-heeled families are dutifully getting Salk shots early and often. The people at the bottom of the economic ladder have learned enough about health protection...
...isolated individuals have a rather difficult decision to make each year when The Game rolls around. These men are the Harvard-educated Yale professors, and the few poor souls on the Harvard faculty who happened to have received their degrees from New Haven...