Word: decent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...desk and shouted. By his own doing, Khrushchev last week engraved himself upon the world's memory as a man indifferent to or contemptuous of civilized restraint and parliamentary procedures, a dictator deluded by the conviction that his vast power frees him from the obligation to show a decent respect for the opinions of mankind...
...When Bob Hope, in 1937, led a rally for unemployed longshoremen, spectators were immediately able to go out and do something. If they contributed money, as they must have, the results were easily imaginable: instead of one grubby meal a day, some longshoreman would have three squares and a decent place to sleep. If public pressures were strong enough, management would have to allow the long-shoremen to unionize: the machinations of a ship company are far less complex than those of the federal government, the ruthlessness of Big Business is an issue far less hazy than disarmament...
...Some of its academic departments operate on budgets as low as $1,000 a year. Last week Father Roesch passed on some newly won presidential wisdom: U.S. foundations "bet on horses that have won before." Then he launched a real horse race: Any department that comes up with a decent educational idea this year will get an extra $20,000. "We want something lasting, something that will influence the university's thrust toward excellence, something worthy of national significance, something that will prove to the educational world that the University of Dayton is serious...
...remove the more unorthodox elements of the rape scene, leaving little to be double-filmed but an active bedroom encounter between Yves Montand and Lee Remick. "The European version I like best," says Montand with a half-bored Gallic shrug, "but I tell you something: both are acceptable and decent. The difference is so small. For America I kiss her lips, but for the Europeans I kiss her collarbone...
Newburyport. just after the Revolutionary War, was fast slipping its Puritan chains. The rich, the decent and the God fearing still ran things, but there was plenty of heavy drinking, and sons of the well-to-do liked to prove their nonchalance by slipping a hundred-dollar bill into a sandwich and eating it. Poor Timothy Dexter wanted desperately to break into the upper crust, but he hadn't a prayer. All he had was money, made by buying up Continental dollars for pennies when most people thought they would become worthless. Overnight a man of affairs instead...