Word: decentes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jobless fishermen and farm hands, Dolci set them to work on one of the island's tattered roads in the hope that the government would pay them later; he was arrested and convicted of "invading government ground" (TIME, April 9, 1956). Most recently, in his crusade for decent housing, 33-year-old Danilo Dolci outraged official sensibilities with a book depicting the miseries of Palermo's slum dwellers...
...Hagerty swore that he would "get even with the Trib." After calling his press conference half an hour early, he primly informed newsmen-among them Buchwald-that the Buchwald column "at no time" resembled "what I ever said at a public briefing." The Herald Tribune, "being a fair and decent paper," Hagerty added pointedly, would give his rebuttal the same Page One play it had given to Buchwald's "unadulterated rot." The intrepidly pro-Ike Trib complied...
...them women), Britain's House of Lords gravely debated the Wolfenden recommendations. "Many hesitate," said Labor's Roman Catholic Lord Pakenham, "lest an act of legal toleration be mistaken for one of moral approval, [but] when we reflect on what torture is being suffered by many decent citizens-along with others less respectable, of course-I hope that we remember the injunction, 'Blessed are the merciful.' Let us take advantage of a point in time while it is still in our power to do the civilized thing...
...twentyfive per cent bonus and if you work a little longer they'll give you time and a half. If you keep your hand on the throttle and your eye on the track, you can forget the men who're walking back and forth above you asking for a decent union and a decent break. And if you really like the money and care a lot for the City, they'll give you a place to sleep and some food to eat right down in the subway, so you can keep your eye off the man who's walking back...
...this time the whimsy is too flimsy. The rich uncle of the title (Charles Coburn) pays a visit to his nephew-(Nigel Patrick), a spectacularly impecunious peer - long on tradition and short on port. Wouldn't dream of "imposing" on his uncle for a loan. Heavens, no. Only decent thing to do is to murder the old boy. But every time the nephew baits a trap, who gets caught? The paying customer...