Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Which the Lampoon's perfected--poor show...
...Jersey's Robert Baumle Meyner. He lost ground by a poor showing during a late-summer Midwestern swing, recouped yardage by electing a hand-picked candidate to the Senate and taking firmer grip on once Republican New Jersey counties. Meyner's headache: better-known Eastern Moderate Jack Kennedy...
...1940s, that led to a blossoming Utopia. By mid-20th century, he assumes, Britain's best minds had realized that their country's economy could no longer compete with those of the U.S., Russia and China under a haphazard system that prevented some bright children of the poor from reaching responsible jobs rightfully theirs, and fortified doltish sons of the rich and well-born in positions of power. The answer: meritocracy, which is rule by the most talented, determined according to the formula I+E = M (Intelligence plus Effort equals Merit...
...passing prelate rescues the heroine (and the audience) from a fade worse than death. The second answer is very Spanish but rather grotesque. Since no suitable male is available, B.B. decides to make playful advances to a fighting bull. As she sidles up to him mooing small endearments, the poor bull just stands there looking cowed. The third answer is very Hollywood but sort of tedious. When a nice young sailor (Stephen Boyd) kills that nasty uncle, Brigitte helps him to escape. Night falls, and they hide out in an abandoned mill, a gypsy camp, a cave. On they...
...reason that he has tried to hire her. Mary's copy stands out against her rivals' because she has what one colleague calls the ability to "write pictures" of what she sees and hears. "I have very few opinions, but powerful impressions," she says. "I'm poor at summary, significance, relating-all I can do is respond...