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Word: decentes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...English people with whom I had made contact were left-wing and affected by a similar philosophy. Since coming to Harwell I have met English people of all kinds and I have come to see in many of them a deep-rooted firmness which enables them to live a decent life. I don't know where this springs from, and I don't think they do, but it is there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: THE MEANING OF RIGHT & WRONG | 2/20/1950 | See Source »

...failure, all too often, to "meet the needs of man's moral and social nature." His needs went far deeper than a good wage. They included the need of recognition of his dignity as an individual, his desire for the esteem of others, and the assurance of a decent living and a secure future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANAGEMENT: The Capitalist Manifesto | 2/13/1950 | See Source »

...somehow the joke was not quite so funny west of the Russian border. While Western comrades laughed at the scrupulous Briton and his decent human impulse, some of them also felt a little like crying. Many of them had joined the party in the '20s and '30s with the notion that they were making a better, more decent world only to find that the party was committed to indecent, inhuman calculation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Ugly Leah | 1/9/1950 | See Source »

Toward the Salt Mines. Le Monde's editors got Duval a better job and a decent home. That, it seemed, was all that was needed to win Duval's soul away from the gospel of hate. When a party delegation called on Comrade Duval and asked him to sign a statement denouncing the "bourgeois" who had helped him, he flatly refused. His wife told the Reds: "We have been living here for years and you have never paid attention to us or done anything for us. And you come only now when somebody else is trying to help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Hate, Hate, Hate! | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

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