Word: decent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...them: 1) passage of the Kennedy Administration's civil rights legislative package-"without compromise or filibuster"; 2) integration of all public schools by the end of this year; 3) a federal program to "train and place all unemployed workers-Negroes or white-in meaningful and dignified jobs at decent wages"; 4) a federal Fair Employment Practices Act barring all job discrimination...
...milk cans buried near the mill, that's a different thing. So last month, in delirium on his deathbed at Minnesota's Mayo Clinic, Altman told his son and daughter about the milk cans. They thought it was a little strange, but nevertheless, after a decent interval, they decided to dig around a little. By the end of last week they had unearthed three of them, stuffed with...
Phil Campagne and John Stephenson, as the sheriff and constable respectively, opened the show on such a flat note that for a moment it seemed any decent high school cast would be a distinct improvement. Douglas Connor, the attorney who twists the law irregardless of justice, compounded the mediocrity...
...lost much of the old (38-24-36) Outlaw oomph. Poured into a gown for a three-week engagement in Las Vegas with Singers Connie Haines and Beryl Davis, she found it all choked up, and grabbed a scissors. "I just cut it to a decent V," she murmured. "What was cheesecake in The Outlaw days is like a Mother Hubbard today-just look at what the current crop of dames wear...
...complete agreement with the aspirations of the Negro people and their leaders, and we praise the courage and fortitude they have shown thus far in their struggle for equal rights. At the same time, we feel it would be a gross mistake to prejudice the chances for a decent civil rights bill by besieging Washington...