Word: decentes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Republican top brass hit hard at the Truman tactics. Said South Dakota's Senator Karl E. Mundt: "Never has a retiring President campaigned in this manner. He is making it difficult for any decent Americans to vote Democratic in 1952." Then, in words addressed especially to Catholics and Jews, Mundt added: "Despite the fact that over a hundred leading national organizations, including the National Catholic Welfare Council, endorsed the McCarran-Walter Immigration Act, Mr. Truman blandly cries it is 'anti-Catholic.' The man who smashed the greatest enemy of the Jews in modern times, Adolf Hitler...
...said in his Abilene press conference last June: "I believe that every American has a right to decent medical care. Incidentally, the best plan I ever heard about came right from this state, from [Dr. Murphy]. I sat at his feet for several hours. He is a man who, it seems to me, has real sense...
...with a 1945 statement hoping for peace and collaboration with Russia. "And that charge," said Ike in Eugene, Ore., "came from the very same man who only three years later, remember, in 1948, came to this town [and said]: 'I like old Uncle Joe Stalin. Joe is a decent fellow. But the people who run the government won't let him be as decent as he would like...
...drunk You've gotton the green banana Your data called up and broke the data Three-dollar bills People who are "out of it" Sack rat A person who likes to sleep Tunk An all-male jolly-up To bomb To study Smooth up Put on decent-looking clothes The 'Case Syracuse, N.Y. site of a bloody and traditional football game Plush courses Gut courses Ace Good fraternity prospect
...with the Dever pin watched the police take the barriers apart and push them into their paddy wagon. "Damn good speaker," he said. "And damn decent. Makes a good impression. And a very courteous crowd, too. It's good that they gave him a hearing. He's a nice young man. Last time one like that came down here, it was Coolidge. They threw rocks. And then this Lodge's father was down once too. A very distinguished old gentleman. It's good to let people hear for themselves. I'm very glad they didn't throw rocks...