Word: decentes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...distinguished Indian can dine at Claridge's in London, but not in the "Europeans Only" restaurants of Nairobi. If there is segregation in Kenya's schools (which there is), if a Negro woman must shop through a hatch in the wall in Rhodesia (which she must), the decent Englishman at home hears about it in no village pub, worries over it in no angry parish meeting. It all happens several thousand miles away, and in another country...
...effective control of 800,000 trade unionists; they can paralyze India's biggest city, Calcutta, at will. In impoverished India the Communists also have excellent future prospects: the nation's urban unemployment is increasing by 500,000 a year; 15 million families are unable to make a decent living upon India's arid land. India's current rate of industrial investment is considered more than 85% behind India's grievous need...
...national leadership of the Democratic Party, his cynical manipulation of the issues of peace and war for partisan advantage, his reckless playing of the security "numbers game"-in all these things Nixon propagated a dangerous tendency in our politics that could, if it goes unchallenged, destroy the foundations of decent political debate in America...
...there has been a sudden increase in the number of Cadillacs bearing the slogans "Murphy for the Common Man," or "Herter Cleaned up State House Graft." On the street corners political hustlers have been pasting up their unused signs and calling to passers-by to "vote for a really decent guy." Behind these activities are the campaign headquarters, grinding out last minute letters to the veterans, the aged, and Mother...
...Thursday afternoon, little signs went up all over the College proclaiming that "to simplify office procedure". The application dates for football tickets have been advanced a week. This means that undergraduates who want to get anything approaching a decent seat are forced to file their applications on Monday two weeks before a game...