Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even newer than this display of military morals was the Regular Army, 1940 model, which was about to strut its stuff for the U. S. people. Although they have spent some $2,600,000,000 on their Army since its renaissance began, they undoubtedly expected to hear more poor-mouth talk about a skeleton Army, starved since World War I, not pretending even to itself that it could fight a battle. What they actually will see and hear is that their Army is over the hill and out of the poor house...
...gave Italy an Empire, won in blood, albeit from some poor colored people and a handful of Adriatic hillbillies. He made his countrymen feel that Spain's victory was Italy's. He held out the Axis to his people as a double-bladed fasces which would cut a big place in the sun for Italy...
With an anecdote Reporter Tomara answered Question No. 2. Proceeding by bus from Ankara to Beirut, she was delayed by a breakdown in the middle of the salt desert of Konya. From the hovels of a dirt-poor Turkish village, the populace swarmed around. Out stepped "an elderly man whose head was wrapped in a dirty rag-possibly a turban, the wearing of which long ago had been banned by the late Kamal Ataturk. The old man, who had been taken prisoner by the Russians in the last war, addressed me in primitive Russian, filling out gaps in his sentence...
...central figure, and what a figure. She did and said whatever she liked, and Grandma liked it carnal. Her gay married daughter ran her a close second. And her tough little granddaughter was never far behind. There were some other characters in the play, but they were poor ordinary mortals whose problems seemed sordidly normal beside this engagingly ribald trio...
...parents were both brilliant students at Oxford, but marriage, children, their own horror of life soon relegated them to a small town in Cornwall, where Mr. Caise ran the museum. Earnest, atrophied, intellectually snobbish, they did the best they knew how for their children. For Douglas, it was a poor best...