Word: decent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contest. He demanded and got a resolution from the party leaving the appointment up to him. Then he revealed that he would create two deputy leaderships-and probably fill them with unambitious men. "I am in good sound health," Nehru reportedly told a party meeting. "Let's be decent about it. I do not want to think of the day when I am no more on the scene. The idea is embarrassing...
Some People, Places, and Things That Will Not Appear in My Next Novel, by John Cheever. Pursuing the invisible fly in the ointment of their lives, John Cheever's decent, middle-class people drop into a limbo of alcoholic oblivion, sexual promiscuity and lonely despair that very much resembles hell...
...Decent Delay. The ruin may well spread beyond the confines of Laos. Russia and Red China will go to the 14-nation* conference at Geneva this month determined not only to put Prince Souvanna Phouma in power, but to pillory the U.S. for its intervention in Laos. Washington is in the unhappy position of having misfired with two opposite policies. The Eisenhower Administration tried to make primitive Laos "a bulwark against Communism' and failed, in part because of the reluctance of the Royal Laotian Army to fight. The Kennedy Administration announced that it would be satisfied with a neutral...
Francophile Kelly supervises Gleason's workaday lunches and explains: "I just order what I think would be a decent meal for three men, and when it's not enough, I order more." For working booze ("Whisky is for fun") Jackie absorbs six bottles a day of ruby-red Nuits-Saint-Georges-chilled, to the frigid disapproval of the Nuits-Saint-Georges bottlers...
...brains. Everything is to be concentrated in them: banks, business affairs, the control of industry." Beyond the central ring was a civic center, and then a series of belts of apartment houses, with a garden for every apartment. Factories and utilities were relegated to the outskirts, for "in a decent house, the servants' stairs do not go through the drawing room." There were different levels of traffic, ranging from an airstrip to superhighways for vehicles of varying speeds to walks reserved solely for pedestrians...