Word: decentes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prepared talks are thrown out the window," he told a reception committee at the Sheraton-Cadillac Hotel. "If what I have to offer in the way of honest, decent approach . . . is not enough, there is nothing more I can do . . . If I make blunders, I know my friends will excuse it. And I hope the others will realize, at least, that I am sincere...
...Graham popped in with an idea for curing the industry's ailments. Cried Graham: "Take sex and crime out of the movies. We've had so much sex in this country till we're sick to death of it. That's why people stay away. Decent people are ashamed...
...Socialized Medicine: "I do believe that every American has a right to decent medical care, [but] I am against socialization . . . and submitting our lives toward a control that would lead inevitably to socialism...
...Korea: "I do not have any prescription for bringing the thing to a decisive end . . . I believe we have got to stand firm and take every possible step we can to reduce our losses, and try to get a decent armistice out of it . . . There has been built up behind the Yalu River a very definite air strength that would make very dangerous any attempt to end the war at this moment, until we have a bigger buildup of our own." But he implies that he would favor counterattacks on China "if I am attacked in a broad...
...poison gas in Korea and China, Lovett said: "The Communist techniques . . . have usually been to charge someone else in advance with the crime they propose to commit." Then he added: If he Reds try bacteriological or poison-gas war, they will "open up a vast area which the decent world has abstained from using, [and] if they do, they'll lose just the same-they'll just wish they had never been born...