Word: decent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...favor to him from the city fathers, a personal convenience, along with the new bank and the other refinements that urban renewal has brought to his old turf. The neighborhood, in Manhattan's West 60s, is called San Juan Hill. It is one of the oldest and most decent of the city's Negro ghettos. Monk's family settled there in 1924, coming north from Rocky Mount, N.C., where Thelonious was born...
...makes it to second. Some of the fault must lie with Director Guy Hamilton, who borrows his pace from those fans that whir lazily overhead in every tropical sinkhole. But justice triumphs, and the made-in-England script gives the saving final testimony to Trevor Howard (so rational, so decent, so British). Thus Man tosses off its message with a chaser of backhanded amity...
...Often in the past relocation has meant "only another slum dwelling and the likelihood of the same experience." To prevent this cycle the President has suggested an increased subsidy of $120 a year per unit for families who otherwise would be unable to afford even the lowest rents for decent housing...
...Disgusts me, as I am sure it must all decent citizens. B. T. SPENCER Assistant Vice President Newport National Bank Newport...
...Roman Catholic, a decent, educated American adult with a decent, 15-year-old son, I feel you owe us as well as all the other Catholic and decent readers of your magazine an apology for printing such filth and a retraction of the disgraceful, sordid, repugnant principles you have either glorified or approved, especially free sex and birth control. (MRS.) LORETTA FABRICANT Lynbrook...