Word: decent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...build schools, both urban and rural. Thus two positive ends would have been attained: an honest and efficient administration of these resources and a sense of gratitude toward the U.S. Government. Now, instead, these funds have only served to meet punctually the salaries of the armed militia, torturers of decent citizens...
...incident points up a situation that is increasingly worrying to the Roman Catholic Church in Italy-the threadbare poverty of the priesthood. Many a country priest begs for his staples, and depends on the traditional Sunday dinner with a parishioner for his one decent meal of the week. Doing the pastor's laundry is a well-established parish chore. Priests in the south have been known to sleep in their churches for lack of lodgings, and some even make ends meet by operating movie halls or cafés as a sideline. In modern Italy, the priest...
...Parade. The big cities quickly went into opposition. Socialists, trade unions and students railed against unemployment, grinding poverty, and the government's inability to provide decent housing in place of the fetid bidonvilles (shanty towns) surrounding Rabat, Casablanca and Port Lyautey. Hassan was accused of using the army for strike breaking, of being pro-French...
Raditzer, by Peter Matthiessen. Writing with an incisiveness that recalls Conrad, Novelist Matthiessen tells a harsh tale of parasite and host-the one a whining Navy goldbricker, the other a strong and decent...
...hardly was, that it all and unbegullingly wasn't for likes" of him--poor decent --to rap out queries the owner of the to him and unsuggestive name that these days, been thrust on with such a wealth of gesture, was precisely now, as he took, with his list of New Year colfichets whatever, his way to the great palace, fairly flicked his with the sense of his never so let himself in, as he phrased it, without letting any by the same token...