Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beer based his support of the President mainly on the thesis that the Democratic Party is better suited to aid the poor, the uneducated, and the economically depressed. He also attacked GOP views on tariffs, foreign policy, and taxes...
...about an Oxford student who impersonates his aunt from Brazil so that a lunch party will have a chaperon was mostly fun because it was magnificently frenzied: farce is among the few things with the right to advocate violence. The new version not only has music that is pretty poor, but, as a way of halting the high jinks, every tune might as well be Lead, Kindly Light...
Cutup that he was, Casey never allowed practical joking to interfere with business. As manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers and Boston Bees, he got all the mileage there was to get out of poor material...
Thomas Haemerken came from Kempen near Düsseldorf. He was a shy, quiet little German monk with fresh coloring and piercing brown eyes. He was gentle with everyone, especially the poor. When the psalms were chanted he often stretched on tiptoe toward heaven with his face turned upward. He seldom had much to say about everyday affairs; but when the conversation turned to spiritual things he sometimes became so eloquent and moved that he would break off and excuse himself. "My brethren," he would say, "I must go; someone is waiting to converse with me in my cell...
...majority may feel that a Negro is a human being all right; but when you add that they want to see him treated fairly, you're wrong . . . The big majority does not want to insult or oppress him; but [it] has, in general, a poor opinion of him." Least of all, concludes Author Cozzens, does the big majority want the Negro to be fairly treated in wartime, because at heart it believes that in a time of national crisis it is proper for the weak to be sacrificed to the morale of the strong, whose savage, intolerant instincts...