Word: decentes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...problems provide fertile ground for exploitation. As long as the students stay in the U.S., they live in a sort of no man's land. Many have no legal status, are permitted to remain only on an indefinite basis. Some find it impossible to make plans or a decent living. Some are lonely; there are about five male Chinese students to each female. "Many of them," explains a Chinese professor now teaching in New Jersey, "have discarded Confucianism and have not acquired the Christian spirit of the Americans. The technology they have learned is not enough to substitute...
...Dismal & Decent. For a while, such heady success seemed too rich for Philadelphia's blood. The monumental indifference that was ultimately to run Connie Mack's old Athletics all the way to Kansas City was far from dissolved by Roberts' effortless and somehow unexciting pitching. And if winning ball games was not enough, off the field the young man was about as colorful as the third fellow from the end in the class picture. The few real fans in town felt like Huck Finn trying to warm up to the Widow Douglas: "It was rough . . . considering...
...final analysis, as he realized, the Court, the NAACP, and Thurgood Marshall all can do only so much; the future of integration and, more important, the future of the Southern community in the next fifty years depends on the mutual co-operation of whites and Negroes. If any decent way of life can be achieved, a meeting of friends and hearts will be its instrument...
...freshman ten has been dropping games regularly to prep school teams (1-20 to Deerfield--2-16 to Exeter). Of course we can't blame anyone if there just aren't enough good players around, but the least the H.A.A. could do is to give the teams some decent equipment. At present the squads wear faded, patched, pink shirts and usually have to trade off helmets and gloves...
...will surely be read with great glee by anti-Americans everywhere. But the average U.S. reader is apt to emerge from this nightmare-shored-by-platitudes wondering how, with such irresponsible interlocking monsters running the country, things manage to go so well, and so many people stay happy, decent and prosperous...