Word: decentes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This is plainly the worst bell in the area. The Memorial Church bell, strident though it may be, maintains decent hours on Sunday and contains itself until eleven o'clock. St. Paul's Church, directly across from Adams House, is regular enough to be absorbed easily into the semi-conscious, stuporous mind...
...even in May the Cape can get warm enough for swimming at noon, and the water in Buzzards Bay and along the south shore is far warmer than any north of the Canal. Good beaches line almost the entire coastline except the steeper and rocker western end. The only decent beach on Buzzards Bay is Old Silver Beach. Of course, if one is after just plain swimming, a single rock will suffice...
...Travelers arriving at Hong Kong from Shanghai told of people being hauled off trains and killed on the spot. Many an old grudge was being settled as servants accused former masters, employees denounced past employers, kinfolk bore witness against each other. The terror scorned the traditional Confucian concept of decent human relationship. Older people, heretofore respected for their years, were led through streets to prisons or to execution, and on the way Communist youth spat at them. In one Kwangtung province town a grey-haired man was forced to crawl on his knees, kowtow to groups of Red workers...
...same goes for Melanesia, but the Micheners add a practical if: "If we could earn some income, have screening, some kind of lighting system and some native boys willing to work for a decent wage...
...barber. In a climax of selfdiscovery, Silvio realizes that his wife has been unfaithful, that he is a failure as a writer, and that most of their troubles are his own fault. Humbled, he hopes to patch up his marriage: "To accept my status as a human being ... a decent fellow . . . modestly conscious of his own limitations ... the lover, and the beloved, of a young and beautiful wife...