Word: decentes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...along, because they have no chance whatever to defend themselves against Communist aggression unless they have U.S. help. Determination of basic anti-Communist policy is not and cannot be a question of achieving agreement between the anti-Communist allies. It is a question of U.S. decision, made with a decent regard for the opinions of the allies, but made essentially by the U.S., which alone has the power to make the alliance a reality...
...step higher, the Administrative Board is known to favor shifting the burden of proof to those who want a change. Its basic position is that "there are certain rules in decent society which one observes automatically," and that excluding women from men's bedrooms during certain hours is one of these. The Administrative Board is not planning any revisions on its own; it will wait and see what the committee on Houses does, and then make up its mind...
...clergyman. Just as he finally began to prosper in his trade he decided to chuck it and take to lay missionary work in the Bristol slums. He took to drink besides. When he died, his widow had to take in boarders, but managed to send Christopher to a decent school. Later he assumed his mother's name ("It was a matter of euphony") and her Quaker faith. He never became a practicing Quaker; but he sends his son to a Quaker school and has a deeply Christian faith...
Resting in Madrid, Barbara Mutton, disillusioned with her fourth husband, Prince Igor Troubetzkoy, announced a change of heart about Europe, too: "There are still some fine people here, but I've learned that Americans have the real, decent, good qualities which count in life. You can have all the glittering front that is left in Europe today. I've had enough...
...London's Catholic weekly, the Tablet, ". . . have been smug, condescending, derisive, some with unconcealed glee, some with an affectation of pity; all are agreed that there is a great failure to celebrate ... I believe the truth is that they have detected in him something they find quite unforgivable-Decent Feeling. Behind all the bluster and cursing and fisticuffs he has an elementary sense of chivalry-respect for women, pity for the weak, love of honor-which keeps breaking in. There is a form of high supercilious caddishness which is all the rage nowadays in literary circles. That is what...