Word: decentes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Greece's King Paul and Queen Frederika. Among the entertainers was talented, sexy Eartha Kitt, who sang songs such as Santa Baby and I Want to Be Evil. Next day, some of Los Angeles' councilmen were shocked. Said one: "It was low-level entertainment, repugnant to all decent citizens." Eartha's songs, according to Mayor Morris Poulson, were "filthy, risque and off-color." Eartha herself pleaded not guilty. Said she: "I can't understand it. I didn't think it was possible to shock politicians." The King and Queen, already on their...
...much of an increase in world production is needed to raise the backward nations to a minimum standard of decent living? The world needs at least another $25 billion worth of food a year and another $15 to $25 billion in housing, medicine, clothing, etc.,-an increase of 7% to 10% in present world production of consumer goods and services. This is the estimate of Economists Wladimir and Emma Woytinsky, a husband & wife team who have spent five years compiling an exhaustive (1,268 pages) study, World Population and Production, published by the Twentieth Century Fund...
...Churchill adds: "It might have been effective, because we were dealing with men in the Kremlin who were governed by calculation and not by emotion . . . The cutting off of the convoys at this critical moment . . . would perhaps have bulked in their minds as much as considerations of honor, humanity, decent commonplace good faith usually count with ordinary people...
...should like to reply in detail to all these readers. Obviously, I cannot. Instead, summarily: 1) Most of them seem unable to identify themselves imaginatively with, e.g., Asians seeking freedom from hunger and colonialism and without our experience of the benefits of liberal Western democracy. These decent, God-fearing Americans fail to realize that, if they were Chinese peasants, they probably would prefer the Peking Communist regime to its predecessors. 2) To those who say "Look at the map, look at the Soviet expansion," I reply . . . look at the U.S. bases globally encircling the U.S.S.R. How would Americans feel about...
With donations and pledges at a low ebb, the Radcliffe Community Service Fund Drive chairman yesterday announced a new effort to secure a "decent, final amount...