Word: decent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seen by Author Gann, the commercial airline pilot seems to be a reliable fellow-decent, dedicated, cautious and undaunted. Yet, airline passengers who pick up this book are bound to come to an alarming conclusion: the man who flies often enough, whether the captain at the controls or the traveler in the cabin, is doomed. Fate is more than a fine literary record of Gann's own career as a commercial pilot, reaching back to the days of open-cockpit biplanes "and the strangely pleasant odor of wood and shellacked fabric, of which our airplanes were made...
...different. Charlie's family is sound, conventional, well to do. He has been turned down for combat duty and has in turn rejected his chance at a commission; instead, he was drafted for service on a troop transport. On the Pendleton, Raditzer spots him at once as a decent man who is above abuse, a man to tie to for protection. Raditzer glories in his whining autobiography-born illegitimate, raised in an orphanage, never knew a decent woman, never had a chance. He ducks his sea duty and Charlie Stark fills in for him. He is loud, cowardly, physically...
...taught by this to speak with moderation, Of places where, with decent application, One gets a good, sound, middle-class education...
That it hardly was, that it all bleakly and unbeguilingly wasn't for "the likes" of him-poor decent Stamfordham- to rap out queries about the owner of the to him unknown and unsuggestive name that had, in these days, been thrust on him with such a wealth of commendatory gesture, was precisely what now, as he took, with his prepared list of New Year colifichets and whatever, his way to the great gaudy palace, fairly flicked his cheek with the sense of his having never before so let himself in, as he ruefully phrased it, without letting anything...
...Iowa Guard Mark Manders (a married man): "You're doing a job for them, and married guys should receive fair play. We should get halfway decent expense accounts. I receive 87 bucks a month for room and board like all the single players, and it's not enough...