Word: decentes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Socialists have organized a decent kind of materialism in which poverty can be abolished, and have combined their secular order with Chrisitan decency. But Swedish life is controlled and regulated to a degree difficult for an American to imagine; not that these people are not free, but they have a polite and padded kind of freedom. This is the doing not only of the Socialists; Conservatives and businessmen talk a great deal about the need for more individual initiative, but none of them seems willing to fight hard...
...horried person," the priest shouted back. "I can see by your horrid, filthy, sexually degenerate face what you are. You're a horrible example of a Protestant fraud, everyone knows that, it's a wonder any decent girl will look in your face. Everyone in the park knows...
Under such pressures, the Filipino economy began to crumble. In the Hong Kong open market the peso fell from two for $1 (par) to four for $1. Most schoolteachers and many soldiers did not get paid regularly. Unable to find work in the cities or make a decent living on the land, more & more Filipinos took to the hills of Luzon, to join the Huks. Once the admired guerrilla army that had fought the hated Japanese, the Huks had been taken over by the Communists. As discontent grew, the Huks grew with...
These two movies make a decent evening's entertainment provided you haven't anything better...
...kind of Pyrrhic victory for Barrio Antioquia's defenders. Said the suburb's Padre Abel Diez, who had fought the red-light invasion: "There were insults; they threw rocks at my house and I could never sleep. We closed the church today. The decent people will have to leave...