Word: decentes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...communist line, I suggest that practically all of the people who pleaded the Fifth Amendment were willing to tell everything they knew about the communist membership except that they had an understandable reluctance to tell on those people who had gotten out of the movement and were leading unmolested, decent, pro-democracy lives. We have taught our children not to be tattle-tales, but now we are putting on a public parade of witness to testify against their-upbringing. This parade may keep up for sixty years. 700,000 Americans, usually between the ages of 18 and 23, joined...
...seemed to combine a tolerance for Taft with a special barb for U.S. hecklers in Britain, the President continued: "Now, not being a particularly patient man, I share the irritations and the sense of frustration that comes to everybody who is working for what he believes to be a decent purpose and finds himself balked by what he thinks is the ignorance, or the errors, of someone who is otherwise his friend." He could well understand, he went on, the resentment that came at times when we knew we were trying to do right and we got slapped...
Good Marines. Like good marines, Rathbun and Smith did more than gripe; they tried to do something about the situation. Other fishermen must be having the same trouble, they reasoned. Why not draw decent road maps that would tell people how to get to good fishing grounds? For the next few weekends they toured the highways and backwaters of Maryland. They talked to farmers, truck drivers, bartenders, charter-boat operators. Soon they had so much information that they changed their plans: Why not make a map that would tell fishermen everything-where to go for different fish, what kind...
...completed its work on the bill, Illinois' Democratic Senator Paul Douglas, an old Capehart antagonist, proposed that the committee vote its thanks for the chairman's fine work. Said Douglas, with admiration in his voice:"You could not serve under a better chairman. He's fairminded, decent, generous." The Salesman. On the Senate floor last week, one of Capehart's dismayed old friends, Utah's Republican Senator Wallace Foster Bennet, an ex-president of the N.A.M., argued that the U.S. should never again have economic controls except as "the last recourse." Bob Taft opposed Capehart...
...police don't understand anything about art, and it won't matter if I just paint stripes or circles.' " But he found himself copying a crystal candlestick and a blue porcelain vase which he saw in his studio. "Much to my surprise," he says, "something decent actually turned up." Emanuel grew a husky white beard to complete his disguise, and painted away delightedly...