Word: decent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...religious strife that has grown out of the dispute between India and Pakistan over possession of Kashmir. When an M.P. complained that "our unilateral goodness is interpreted as cowardice by Pakistan," Nehru replied emotionally: "I know the people of Pakistan. When you excite them with religious slogans, nobody remains decent. Everybody becomes brutal, whether it is the Hindu or the Moslem...
...telephone interview yesterday. Hughes said his decision not to run was based on the prestige Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '64 (D-Mass) would enjoy as an incumbent Senator. "He's no longer the brash young man he seemed to be in 1962, but a decent Fair Deal incumbent," he said...
...adjacent sidewalks and public streets." At 54, Pye is tetchy as a loaded derringer; he is wont to hector witnesses and explode at any moment over what he calls "mongrelization of the races." Trying to be fair to Pye, another Atlanta judge sums up: "He's a fine, decent, honest, hard-working man, except that he happens to be hipped on the subject of race...
True, Ryan is a hopeless martinet-like Alec Guinness in Bridge on the River Kwai. He even establishes a gentlemanly rapport with the camp's commandant, who at heart is as decent as Erich von Stroheim in Grand Illusion. His troubles are with his own men-tough guys like William Holden in Stalag 17, wise guys like Steve McQueen in The Great Escape, irrepressible Englishmen like Dirk Bogarde in The Password Is Courage. But Ryan is in this-man's-army, and in the end he proves it by freeing singlehanded all 964 prisoners after joining...
George Wallace's greatest success was not with conservatively minded Republicans, but with usually liberal Democrats. Wallace got 30 per cent of the vote in normally Democratic Milwaukee Country and did partcularly well on Milwaukee's south side, where voters mainly of Polish decent usually pile up heavy Democratic majorities...