Word: decent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Alabamian or not I have no means of knowing, threw red paint and garbage on our son's grave. Whoever committed such an atrocity must have been mentally ill. Certainly, it should not be charged to my fellow Alabamians, the overwhelming majority of whom are as fine, decent, and fair-minded people as can be found anywhere...
...sign up serious criminal offenders or narcotics addicts. Endowed with $150 million of the $784,200,000 first-year appropriation for President Johnson's war on poverty, the corps is essentially geared for boys and girls aged 16 to 21 who have not finished high school, have no decent job, and whose academic skills are hopelessly stuck at fourth-to seventh-grade levels. Shriver hopes to get 40,000 such youngsters enlisted this year, another 100,000 next year...
...redefinition of some moderate G.O.P. principles that had been noticeably missing from Goldwater's convention platform. They heartily endorsed the 1964 civil rights bill and said flatly that government must be "necessarily active in many areas of human need" such as "old-age security, hospital and medical care, decent living standards, public education, mental health and the needs of youth...
...tired of books like Race Riots New York 1964, published soon after an event for the sole purpose of selling copies. Fred C. Shapiro and James Sullivan have produced the almost inevitable hodge-podge of decent reporting, vignettes both tired and telling, and banal analysis that rarely moves beyond the superficialities of a Time cover story. Thomsa Y. Crowell Company, the publisher, might just as well have reprinted old newspaper articles with an appendix of personal reminiscences from policemen, reporters, and others present during the ricts...
...might want to go south," she sighs receptively. "I might give you a ring," he mutters as he looks her over. When the mourners go home, she skips off to her bedroom, rips off her clothes, flips on a station that plays jazz jazz jazz. Her mother protests: "Hardly decent, is it?" Hardly. Many moviegoers, in fact, will find this picture downright scandalous. But Director Jorn Donner is not prurient; he is Priapic. He does not play the facts of life for sniggers; he displays them, like some pipsqueak Plautus, for grand though gross guffaws...