Word: decentes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harriman: Certainly the policies which we have adopted [in the Far East] are wise and working. The Point Four program is one of the most enlightened policies any nation started. It is a working miracle and it is giving hope to those people for a decent life in freedom. It's a tragedy to see those relatively small...
Getting into a theater should not be such an expensive chore. "Try to get a decent location in a hit show at the box office. It cannot be done. It has driven hundreds of thousands of individuals away from the theater who will not patronize black markets and are not on an expense account." For the Department of Licenses to allow "200,000 to 300,000 house seats from theater owners per annum to get into the hands of special brokers . . . makes no sense. Obviously these are the best seats...
...York Times, is a man "whose ability is undisputed. As a newspaper that is emphatically and enthusiastically in favor of General Eisenhower's election . . . we can and do find satisfaction in the nomination of Governor Stevenson . . . [It] insures that . . . the campaign will be conducted on a decent and dignified level...
...setting is a Scottish fishing village, his characters a cross section of classes from laird to laborers. Too somnolent to worship Dionysus, too remote to be reformed by Pentheus, the villagers of Laxdale have only one wish in life-to see Parliament vote them money for a decent road over the moors. Instead, Laxdale gets a personal visit from Mr. Pettigrew, a blue-nosed Labor M.P. who regards Highland life as the epitome of insanitary sloth. He brings a shapely wife, who admires his Penthean principles but turns to lustier men for her Dionysian pleasures. Along with the Pettigrews have...
...array of charts and witnesses, John Minor Wisdom, chief of the pro-Eisenhower delegation from Louisiana, asserted that John Jackson, head of the Taft delegation, had set up rump meetings and then rigged the state credentials committee so that it was worse than a kangaroo court. Cried Wisdom: "A decent, respectable kangaroo wouldn't be caught dead in such meetings...