Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Privies & Meters. To Salvadora's father, Dr. Luis Henri Debayle, Nicaragua's top surgeon, the grandnephew of a celebrated bandit seemed a poor prospect for a son-in-law. But Salvadorita loved Tacho. Soon after their return to Nicaragua in 1919 they were married...
...longer be "elaborately housed institutions." "The primitive 'rough it' work of the 1st Century disciples comes to mind. The Friends' Ambulance Unit, though it has no evangelization work, is active in Communist China and suggests a pattern. It would be a labor of tents and poor food and maybe overalls...
...World War II. Roosevelt created him, then leaned on him. Churchill sized him up and unconditionally awarded him his respect and friendship. Stalin, Sherwood implies, was more frank with Hopkins than with any other U.S. representative. Harry Hopkins, the chronically ill, chronically broke son of an Iowa harnessmaker, a poor speaker and a worse writer, became perhaps the world's most important minister without portfolio during the greatest crisis in modern history...
Ever since the season's start, the Jayvees have been plagued by defects in their attack. Either it was fumbles, or pass interceptions, or poor timing. McCabe's task of ironing out difficulties has been made no easier by the guinea pig function of the Jayvees. Most of J.V. practice time is spent impersonating the varsity opponent of the following week...
...poetry. I liked two of the poems and I didn't like the two others. The poor ones were "Oaks In Winter," because it is like all the other poems written by young girls about trees and flowers, although technically, I suppose, it is quite good; and "Narcissus," because it is too hard to follow. The good ones, for my money, were "The Innocents," by Adrienne Rich '51 and "That Time Removes," by Anne Tolstoi '49. Both authors have a sure grip on the language they use, and on their media in general. Miss Rich's poem is particularly lucid...