Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate Majority Leader, in a blast in the coal-mining center of Welch (pop. 6,850), called on West Virginia to elect two new Democratic Senators to replace its Republicans. He charged that the G.O.P. is running against Old Socialist Eugene Victor Debs, because they know they "can beat poor old Gene Debs, because he is dead and buried. But," cried Johnson, "they can't beat unemployment, they can't beat sickness and disease, and they can't beat Khrushchev by resurrecting a dead man-and a dead issue-and kicking him around...
State-owned restaurants are divided into Class I, II and III, which is translated by Poles as "poor, terrible and atrocious." There remain a few privately owned restaurants, but they differ from the state-owned only in the fact that the customer may have to wait 20 instead of 30 minutes before his presence is acknowledged by the sullen and inefficient staffs. On an average Warsaw evening, nearly every restaurant is the scene of brawls and near brawls between outraged customers and stony-eyed waiters...
...Skeffington is just about the dearest old party since Santa Claus: a combination of Robin Hood and Mother Machree. Sure and if he steals, 'tis only from the rich, and doesn't the darlin' man turn right around and give it all to the poor...
...varsity, Benjamin scored his sixth straight first place by covering the wintry five-mile course in 25 min., 48 sec. Benjamin's winning time was 12 seconds slower than the record which he set in ideal running conditions against the University of Massachusetts last Tuesday. But even with the poor weather and lack of competition, Coach Bill McCurdy praised Benjamin's performance as "heartening for the Yale meet next weekend...
...policies like these offer only partial coverage to those insured. Even after an insurance corporation has defrayed medical expenses, the remaining costs can very easily be staggering. Doctors' and nurses' fees, extended treatment or psychiatric care will impose expenses that can burden a family with immense debts. In addition, poor risks, like old people, are not covered under private insurance plans, and local or state clinic facilities are necessarily limited. Modern standards of social responsibility, however, seem to indicate that the right of any citizen to needed medical treatment should be guaranteed...