Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...veteran of the Normandy landing who always wanted to be a teacher, O'Brian received his Truk assignment in 1946. He soon found that, for a teacher, Truk was no island paradise. The islanders, an easygoing, coffee-colored people of mixed Micronesian stock, were poor, half-starved and, in Navy eyes, superstitious (one of their taboos: they refused to eat the Navy's beans...
Before he opened Santa Anita 15 years ago, Strub sent aides to scout the eastern tracks and report in detail what was wrong with them. The findings: poor parking facilities, not enough elbow room in grandstands. So Doc ordered up the largest parking lot in the U.S. (215 acres of it) and an ultra-roomy grandstand. His attendants, ushers and gatemen were drilled in courtesy. Strub even handed out kindly advice to the uninitiated bettor, posted such warnings as: "Bet only what you can afford to lose, not what you hope...
Tevye had no trouble marrying his daughters off; the trouble was in getting the right, husbands. When a rich old butcher offered to marry his eldest, Tevye had visions of living off his son-in-law. But instead, his daughter became engaged to a poor young tailor. "What kind of a world has this become?" asked Tevye. "A boy meets a girl and says to her, 'Let us pledge our troth.' Why, it's just too free and easy . . ." But Tevye gave in; he, too, had an eye for love...
...Aleichem ("peace be unto you"). His stories, published in paper booklets, were passed from hand to hand among European Jews. When he died in The Bronx in 1916, more than 100,000 people lined the streets of his funeral procession. He had said: "Let me be buried among the poor, that their graves may shine on mine, and mine on theirs...
...Camp des Alpes-Maritimes, Inc., now in its second year, is looking for five persons to care for poor and undernourished French children during vacation. For this summer the group will all but adopt 120 children in order to restore their health...