Word: decentes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into the family textile business as a salesman, became president by the time he was 30, built the company into the nation's No. 2 textile manufacturer, earned a reputation as an intelligent, progressive businessman. As a Cabinet officer, he became familiar to U.S. television audiences as the decent but bumbling target of Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy. Bob Stevens lost less by Government service than some businessmen in Government: he can buy J. P. Stevens stock at about $7 a share less than it sold for 2½ years...
Although the big farms are now mechanized and comparatively prosperous, they are still so dependent upon a decent rainfall that farming in North Dakota is rated by its governor to be a boom-and-bust proposition: between 1919 and 1952 the state's wheat production fluctuated between the extraordinary extremes of 19 and 160 million bushels a year. Since 1930, the population of the state has declined from 680,000 to 620,000-the biggest percentage drop in all the 48 states...
...think that the principal result of the European sojourn has been to fortify Mr. Eisenhower's political position immeasurably. People are disposed to credit him with sincere and decent instincts, and if he accomplished nothing that is visible, at least he managed to extricate himself from a conference with the Russians without getting trimmed. In view of the performance of his predecessors, this is a feat that is not to be despised...
Dwight Eisenhower showed himself entirely willing to treat them as decent fellows as long as they acted like decent fellows. But in two dramatic statements, he proved to the world that the Russians' hats did not quite...
Hirshhorn may begin his tour of an exhibition by stepping briskly over to the dealer and demanding to know how many kids the artist has and how his work is selling. If the kids are many and sales few, Hirshhorn sees one more opportunity to "be a decent guy." He glances swiftly at the pictures, hoping hard to find some that "sing," or, better yet, make him "feel weak." In a pleasantly weak mood, he may order a dozen or more in as many minutes. Over the past quarter of a century, Hirshhorn has amassed some 800 contemporary American paintings...