Word: substandard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...True to Be Good, by George Bernard Shaw, is substandard G.B.S., full of mildewed seventyish garrulities on religion, militarism and the idle rich. A full cast of stars-Glynis Johns, Robert Preston, David Wayne, Cyril Ritchard, Eileen Heckart, Lillian Gish, Cedric Hardwicke, Ray Middleton-rushes about filling the dramatic vacuum...
...Direct federal financing of an urban renewal program to eliminate the backlog of substandard housing in which, according to the 1960 census, a fifth of the nation dwells...
Another facet of the PBH work will be getting in touch with families living in the slums. The volunteers hope to get an idea of substandard living conditions while alerting residents to the urban renewal going on in the area...
...purchases, but few patriots were willing to turn in their hoards, even on the attractive official terms for payment. Civil defense measures were a joke, slit trenches being dug in New Delhi were both too shallow and too narrow, and a scandal boiled up over the substandard cement used in air raid shelters. So hard up was the government for arms that it asked India's maharajahs to turn over their tiger-hunting guns to defenseless villagers on the northern frontier. Perhaps to stiffen his resolve, a newspaper editor sent Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru a submachine...
Meredith took correspondence courses as a G.I., later attended the Negro Jackson State College in Mississippi, but decided that it was "substandard." Reared as a Methodist, he gradually evolved beliefs bordering on mysticism. "Everybody's worrying about life," he said. "But if I can't live this life then I don't have it. In my feeling, I'm already dead. I want to go to the university. This is the life I want. If I can get it then I have my life; if I don't then I might as well not have...