Word: decent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other Reunion officials still expressed hope yesterday for a compromise whereby "we could use the Band and make it worthwhile for them too." But Band manager Edward A. Alpers '63 pointed out that without a sufficient range of activities the Band could not attract enough members "to put on decent concerts...
...Peking meanwhile, pictures of Albania's Enver Hoxha, who is the other symbol of the Stalinist-Chinese line, appeared on posters all over the city. Billboards proclaimed "eternal friendship" for "heroic Albania," the country that Khrushchev seeks to put beyond the pale of decent Marxist society. Alluding to Son-in-Law Aleksei Adzhubei's Washington visit, the Red Chinese press implied that members of Khrushchev's own family were consorting with criminals-the "gangsterlike and reactionary" Kennedys...
...Chandrapore, Forster's provincial Indian town of the 1920s, the British raj condescendingly called social events attended by both races ''bridge parties." The play opens with such a party. Fielding (Portman), the government college principal and a man too decent to play raj, has invited a mixed bag to tea. Among his guests are a pair of British ladies-who want to see India. One of them, lanky, pink, ditherish Miss Quested (Anne Meacham), who has come from England to be married; and Mrs. Moore (Gladys Cooper), the mother of Miss Quested's fiancé. They...
There is a problem of equal treatment not recognized by those opposing aid to Catholic institutions, Howe said. "It's not decent to deny funds for non-religious education to Fordham while supporting the same course of instruction at Harvard...
...goodfellow is large, well informed, modest and moneyed; he has decent impulses and the ability to keep such impulses decently in check. To the goodfellow, self-respect is a garden path, not the tightwire it is to most men. Thus securely footed, the goodfellow can perform extraordinary acts of treachery while maintaining an excellent opinion of himself. Others almost invariably share this opinion...