Word: decentes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...routine for jailing the opposition. The Committee simply calls a man up to the stand and asks him if he "is or ever has been." If the man is a Communist who, like most such, cannot reveal his membership without losing his job, or if he's simply a decent person, Communist or not, who refuses to be party to political suppression, he gives no answer; off to jail he goes. This procedure has been swung into action now against an inconvenient labor union in Hawaii. There is hardly any pretense that the Committee is gathering information. It's trying...
...Mountains," says proselyting Bill Douglas, "have a decent influence on men." Of Men and Mountains is his story of a spare-time lifetime spent in climbing and fishing the Cascades of Washington and the Wallowas of Oregon. It is also an original and winning statement of a hand-hewn personal philosophy...
...last week his left lung collapsed and he was taken to the hospital. Next day, at 56, Harold Laski was dead. He once told a biographer: "I really don't think there is anything to say about me except that I am honest and anxious to see a decent world before I die." It is fairly certain that Harold Laski considered that wish unfulfilled by the world as it was when he died last week. Jeffersonian-Marxist Harold Laski, for all his brilliance, had never made it quite clear what he considered a decent world...
...championship matches are far away; right now, the Crimson will settle for some decent playing weather and an opportunity to blast the ball down the fairway, let the chips fall where they...
Patrons of a people's restaurant, wrote the irate columnist, would hardly order dishes whose names they either could not understand or which called up memories to turn any decent proletarian stomach. "Competent quarters should take to heart this piece of advice-a restaurant filled with workers is of more value than a 'bonne femme' in the company of Prince Esterhazy or Prince Metternich." Furthermore, it simply did not make sense "that a dish of veal should have five different names, each of which is priced higher according to its unintelligibility...