Word: decent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...formed by leading members of the Southern communities to protect their women and homes from Reconstruction carpetbagger thugs and freed Negroes. Many Negroes returned to their homes or sought work with others, but there were many who, spurred on by crooked politicians and lawmen, raped, robbed and generally browbeat decent citizens. I am a descendant of one of the original Klansmen and have heard of these things all my life. The decent, law-abiding Negro was never set upon-only the criminal element. I am not saying that the Klan has never made a mistake. There are mistakes made...
...homers), and Earl Battey (.272, 12 homers). But the Twins had all these sluggers last year, and still finished in sixth place, a living testimony to the maxim that pitching is 75 per cent of baseball. Only Camilo Pascual (15-12) and Jim Kaat (17-11) had decent seasons, and unless Minnesota comes up with another reliable pitcher, they won't be able to finish higher than fifth...
...stronger than "Good grief!" Schulz insists: "I've never used a cuss word in my life. I don't even like ugly words like stink or fink. Perhaps I'm just ridiculously sensitive." He believes that "comic-strip artists have a responsibility to be uplifting and decent. This is not difficult. My book, Happiness Is a Warm Puppy, is completely innocent; yet in 1963 it outsold every other book, despite the waves of smut sweeping the country...
...Decent Respect. The reaction came swiftly, particularly in Britain. The left-wing New Statesman accused the U.S. of raining "secret gases" on civilians, declared: "The Americans, like Hitler and Mussolini in Spain, are treating the hapless inhabitants of Viet Nam as a living laboratory in which to test their new weapons." A group of Labor M.P.s voiced "horror and indignation," demanded that Britain "disassociate" itself from U.S. policy in Viet Nam. In Washington, visiting British Foreign Secretary Michael Stewart censured his hosts, acidly suggested that they "display what your Declaration of Independence called 'a decent respect for the opinions...
Under Newley's imaginative direction, and Gillian Lynne's lively choreography, Greasepaint bounces idiotically along, though its sound and fury ends with a thud. Newley, a director as well as an author and actor, certainly is talented enough to stage, with decent material, an intelligent and entertaining show. But as long as he builds his castles out of ashes, they will, like this one, all fall down...