Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...roast-beef sandwich, on a Friday, at a restaurant named Thompson's Spa. But many of Boston's Irish and Italians loved James Michael Curley for his charm and his chicanery, as well as for the free hand he had with public funds on behalf of the poor. Curley was famous for having insisted that the scrubwomen in city hall be given long-handled brushes, the better to spare their knees...
When he died at age 83 in 1958, Curley had run Massachusetts as Governor for a term and was four times sent to the U.S. House of Representatives. But he was mayor of Boston ("Mayor of the Poor," he was called) for a full 16 years, four terms, the last of which was partly spent in jail on a mail-fraud conviction. Hizzoner continued to draw his salary while behind bars, gracefully donating it to other Boston prisoners...
Malnutrition and even hunger prevail throughout Viet Nam. Agricultural output declined 15% in 1978, while prospects for this year are so poor that Hanoi has already scaled down its crop estimates from the stated targets. Following widespread flooding of rice lands last September, the monthly ration of food per person was cut from 33 Ibs. to 29 Ibs. Of that, ordinary peasants and workers are allowed only a little over 2 Ibs. of rice, the staple of the Vietnamese diet...
...little natural talent as an artist; no fluency, little relish. Magritte's paintings from the early '20s are painfully bad, academic cubism-as awkward, in their way, as the cubist paintings of another great ideas man of our time, Marcel Duchamp. Magritte had a poor sense of color, and his drawing was mere tracing; the paint surface is as dead as an old fingernail...
Practical problems make a constitutional amendment a poor instrument for austerity-mongers. Nonetheless, national polls show that about two-thirds of the country favors one. California sent a wave of tax-cutting and spending cutbacks rippling across the states last year, and Americans apparently want it to sweep through Washington as well. Of course, nobody answers the question of how states could balance their budgets without the billions of dollars in aid the federal government hands them each year. People know only that inflation hurts, and conservative economists and groups like the National Taxpayers Union tell them that federal deficit...