Word: decent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Again and again Harvard would move the ball into scoring position and fail to get off a good boot at the goal. The team as a whole had some eight decent shots at the posts; center-forward Chris Ohiri, who has tallied eight of the Crimson's nine goals so far, had one attempt, a slow grounder that goalie Rick Benner scooped up easily...
...seems to us worth noting that the men who built the New York buildings are free men, free trade unionists who send their children to college, who live in decent homes, who study after working hours to keep up with changing technology and modern invention, who have first names and last names, who have the right to vote and the right to protest, whose ancestors turned trackless forests into overlush wheatfields, prairies into grazing lands...
...stands for, uncovers new evidence of the pariah's probable innocence and rallies Eliot and a few conscience-nagged colleagues with a cry of "justice for the enemy." As he rounds up the necessary votes for retrial, Eliot encounters the various motives-sly, cynical, stoic, self-serving, selflessly decent-that sway all would-be judges of men. How all-too-human such motives can be is suggested with delightfully doddering comic precision by Edward Atienza as an ancient Senior Fellow who believes that he is being bypassed on suspicion of senility. The retrial exonerates Howard, but the terms...
...decent schools in that area." Warned the San Francisco Chronicle: "This city is drifting toward a fully segregated black-and-white school system." Under this pressure. Superintendent Spears a fortnight ago backed down, killed the planned new district...
...gamblers and black-market "businessmen," executed smugglers; taxi dancers were shunned as "decadent" and some 40,000 bureaucrats were slashed from the government payrolls as "too old, too inefficient, too insubordinate, or too opportunistic." Park shut down brothels and made the shapely hustlers pledge that they would lead a "decent life," and then sent them off to rehabilitation schools. But puritanism had a crippling effect on the South Korean economy. It stifled trade, and created an enormous new unemployment problem. Facing facts. Park's junta is wearily letting the nation slide back to its old ways...