Word: decent
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Sonic Barriers. Largely as a result of Wallace's advocacy, the "farm problem" of today is vastly different from the cruel paradox of the Depression, when farmers went broke amid bounteous production. Today, despite ever more plentiful crops, the efficient farmer is assured of a decent living, contributes his buying power to the economy and his output to the hungry of the world. He may be part of a "permanently subsidized peasantry," as Charles Shuman, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation, insists, but he stands tall on his land...
...Watts Humphrey has had his on and off days. He set a new Yale League record of 16 completions against Dartmouth, but was only one for eleven in the first half against Princeton. If Humphrey plays well, the Yale offense can be very hard to stop. He is a decent runner and runs the option well...
...against such intolerable conditions that the seamen struck. Better pay and decent food, shore leave, protection against brutality-these were among the modest demands of men who continued to show their deposed officers elaborate courtesy and swore unshakable fidelity to the Crown. After token conciliation at Spithead, the government set its chin. In the Nore anchorage at the Thames mouth, a troubled old admiral named Charles Buckner listened with some sympathy to the complaints presented by the elected "president" of the mutineers, Richard Parker, the son of a grain merchant who had once been an officer himself but got cashiered...
...measure of the frustration in the Boston civil rights movement that Negro parents have finally decided to bypass the conventional forms of protest and do the only thing that can get their children into decent schools. For the last two years de facto segregation has been a focus of the Hub's civil rights activity. There have been two school boycotts, one in 1963 and another in 1964, but the School Committee has refused to recognize the issue...
...Keppel's success, says Columbia University Professor of Education Lawrence A. Cremin, is that he is "a man of intellect, but he's not arrogant. He is a political animal in the Aristotelian sense-a man who understands power and wants to use it for decent purposes." Adds Memphis School Superintendent E. C. Stimbert: Keppel is "a breath of fresh air in education...