Word: decent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Decent apartments in Cambridge are very hard to find, she said. "Those few that are available are very expensive," she added...
...tirelessly told itself that the Commu nist challenge must be met by providing an equal or better promise of a decent life, by finding enlightened non-Commu nist leadership, and creating stable non-Communist societies along the periphery of China. In some countries this has at least partly worked. But what if non-Communist governments were to col lapse, giving way to Communist or neutralist regimes without a single Chinese soldier crossing a frontier? Obviously, the only U.S. choice then would be to pull out or to fight. What would the answer be? One psychological difficulty faced...
...Used to take care of my garden," Parker harrumphs. "He was a lousy gardener. I hope he'll make a better president." Obviously, the wind of change wafts through this tart topical melodrama, an updated version of the old favorite about a group of decent, civilized folk marooned in a jungle outpost among hordes of savages. They no longer sing Rule, Britannia! Even the comforting strains of There'll Always Be an England are but dimly heard, and the tribal chieftains have evolved into smartly uniformed officers with English accents and political ambitions...
...cumbent President who, many thought, probably deserved a full term of his own. Thus, from the very start, Goldwater was told by the pollsters that he had little chance of winning. He ob viously felt that he would have to drop bombshells if he were to make a decent showing. Bombshells he dropped -and some exploded in his face...
...administrative setup for agriculture, and dreamed of better fertilizer-all to little avail. His "virgin lands" scheme showed promise this year, thanks to a hopeful harvest, but it was too late. > "GOULASH" COMMUNISM. Most of his people cheered when he announced that Communism must first give people a decent life and then think about world revolution. They cheered when he promised that the revolution would, in fact, be accomplished by beating the capitalists on the economic front. But many were also appalled-classical Marxists, managers of heavy industry ("metal eaters," he called them) and military men -all of whom thought...