Word: decentering
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...fairly decent grades, it wasn't a problem," says John A. Seymour '50, adding that 78 out of 80 applicants from his Exeter class of 1946 enrolled at Harvard. "I really didn't consider going anywhere else...
Much of the book focuses on a few blacks from rural Clarksdale, Miss., some of the hundreds of thousands of sharecroppers and their families who were forced off the fields of the Mississippi Delta after the widespread adoption of the mechanical cotton picker. Lured by the promise of decent pay in the North, they flowed upward along the lines of the Illinois Central Railroad, their ears ringing with the Bible accounts of the children of Israel making their way to the promised land...
...beaches that are even halfway decent are owned by big hotels and reserved for their guests. We snuck onto one only to discover that it was actually an artificial beach, made of imported sand...
Jordan too will benefit. For months, gulf leaders coupled King Hussein with Saddam Hussein. "We didn't care if he met Saddam's fate, but reality intrudes," says a Kuwaiti official. "The Americans are right: no decent alternative exists. Middle East stability demands that we keep the King in power. We're prepared to help him. It sticks in all our throats -- we really hate him -- but what are you going...
GoodFellas Martin Scorsese's Mafia wiseguys rob decent folks, kill crippled kids, snort and sell coke -- and have a swell time together -- in this dark farce that blazes through its 2 1/2 hours like a hit man on a contract high...