Word: decent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...smeared by a good team. The Faculty's prerogative was to decide on the ethics and competitive value of the tournament and the decision has been made in the affirmative. Now it is up to the players and their coach to determine whether they can make a decent showing against tough competition...
...each farmer's yield), plus glebe lands (owned by the parish), plus the pastor's own private income as the son of a gentleman. In those days, a man of the cloth could set a good table, collect a few rare books, and lay down some decent port. But today's private incomes have been wiped out by inheritance taxes, tithes were abolished in 1936, and most glebe lands have been sold. The parson draws his pay from a body known as the Church Commissioners, which acts like a body of church mice-60% of the pastors...
Raditzer, by Peter Matthiessen. Writing with an incisiveness that recalls Conrad, Novelist Matthiessen tells a harsh tale of a parasite and a host-the one a whining Army goldbricker, the other a strong and decent man who is subtly chivied into becoming the sniveler's protector...
...complexion, a sweaty old fur cap, a superb Calcutta accent that sounds as though he had swallowed a noisy fly as he opened his mouth to talk. Nevertheless, the makeup helps to make, not a music-hall figure of fun, but a man-a gentle, warm, naive and wonderfully decent man. Sellers obviously loves him, and so will everybody else...
Raditzer, by Peter Matthiessen. Writing with an incisiveness that recalls Conrad, Novelist Matthiessen tells a harsh tale of a parasite and a host-the one a whining Army goldbricker, the other a strong and decent man who is subtly chivied into becoming the sniveler's protector...