Word: decentes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best game of the season, and it furthermore had the advantage of the unsual home surroundings. But Harvard undoubtedly played its worst. The Bruins had the jump too often; Crimson men couldn't hold the puck, skated slowly, and on their few breaks, never could get off a decent shot...
...arrogance and vengeance ... I charge these . . . leaders with the destruction of unity between the whites; with the use of fear and the trickery of a word (apartheid) to gain power-a word which has become an evil symbol throughout the world; with having shown contempt for all decent Christian sentiments in non-white relations . . .; with alienating friendly nations abroad; with . . . violating the rule of law to retain power...
...pattern that to participate in athletics, a boy has to pay at every turn. Our old policy has prevented boys from taking advantage of our athletic facilities. Athletics, and for that matter other activities called 'extra-curricular,' must be recognized as functions of education. To be honest and decent about such recognition we feel the cost should be included in the tuition...
Small people too, he might have added. Decent, ineffectual Robert Anderson was no match for his wife Laura when they began squabbling over the children. Laura hated him; she also hated their spiritless daughter Margaret, because she was so much like her father. Thanks to Laura's interventions, Margaret never even got to kiss the cautious clergyman she might have married. Lazy brother Rupert, meantime, whiled away delicious summer nights with a ripe barmaid named Joy. But his mother Laura thought Rupert could do no wrong-not even on the night of Oct. 5, when he picked...
...ever belonged to some "subversive" organization--remember that the range goes far beyond the Communist Party--the next question may be, "Name your associates" or "Were X and Y also in this organizations?" The law, of course, gives no privilege against betraying one's friends, and yet no decent American would request such a betrayal, so long as no heinous crime is Involved. It is ingrained in schoolboys not to "peach" on a comrade, and any school-teacher who asked them...