Word: decent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decent editor might have been able to hack free some interesting thoughts from yards of Year-bok-style verbiage. ("The situation I have seen that probably best exemplifies this conflict of criteria is the plight of the high school super-athlete at Harvard," writes the jock.) On the other hand, nothing good could come from the idiotic little statistical "analysis" of the senior class taken from the blurbs accompanying seniors' pictures...
...devote the massive plant of City Hospital to the few who still need a charity hospital is to provide them and Boston with a disservice. The care given the poor today at City, while decent, is not adequate. There is no need for a full staff at City anymore, and the result has been that some parts of it are hardly staffed at all. The few patients who must go there suffer...
...single event in the history of U.S. race relations, the assassination of King, a man who staked his life on his country's conscience, drove home the need for personal commitment to a cause that can easily be lost by default. "The vast untapped resources of the silent, decent people have been awakened," wrote Young in his syndicated newspaper column. "In this tragic period, they offer the nation hope...
This is a touchy business, and Humphrey has delicately discriminated between his unequal rivals. He says that McCarthy's campaign "has been decent, honest and gentlemanly," but can spare no kind words for Kennedy. Rather, he has begun indirectly to play on Kennedy's vulnerable points. "I intend to act like a Vice President," Humphrey declares, "not like an aggressive, acquisitive, self-seeking, bridge-burning candidate. I don't run any blitzkriegs. I don't indulge in any arm-twisting tactics." And the erstwhile enfant terrible emphasizes his own "maturity" in contrast with the "emotional binges" of the unnamed opposition...
...former Attorney General for emotional or ethnic reasons, the Kennedy faction seems committed to unconventional solu- tions to poverty, crime, prejudice, and leftist revolutions abroad. Kennedy's most articulate supporters believe that time has come to move beyond the social palliatives of the past 35 years to insure decent living standards, education, and employment for all citizens. The mood of many Kennedy supporters is characterized by disgust at the sterility of most liberals' response to national crisis and conviction that material and political resources are available to avoid Vietnams at home or abroad...