Word: decentes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...afternoon Paco rose in Congress and said a few kind words for some local Communists. As he warmed to his work, he exclaimed that the Communist Party is Guatemala's "most decent, most honest, most disciplined and most patriotic." Finally, carried away, Paco blurted out that his own party, PAR. is "only a party of transition . . . destined to disappear into the great world Communist Party...
...station and every national background are living today in that enormous arena, the metropolis of New York City. The city, which stifles thousands of them in jammed tenements and garbage-littered lots, also attempts, with genuine compassion and real hope, to educate them and to fit them for useful, decent, even happy lives. It is not a simple or idyllic process: the classroom struggle for the minds and hearts of New York's young is as complex, as baffling and painful as the struggle for gain and survival which goes on in the perpendicular jungles of masonry outside...
...hope is not at all vague, and the morality not at all confused. The necessity that may some day force us to use the bomb will not make it right, and until war is actually upon us we shall surely be wrong in not pursuing wholeheartedly every decent means to its avoidance...
True to the task of molding the complete man of suburban society, Colgate demands certain skills in exchange for a degree. There are, naturally, the usual swimming and language requirements. But the Colgate graduate must go beyond these bare essentials for civilized living; he must play a decent game of golf and tennis. Accordingly, those who cannot pass an initial test, spend a part of their time on the college's links and courts until they are skilled enough in the sports to sell insurance, or even bonds...
...received illegally and corruptly ? Why has he done nothing of this kind? ... If he only had tried to do it, he would have been dead the very day his purpose became known to all these corrupt people who have, today as yesterday, more power and more influence than the decent people like Mr. Ruiz Cortines...