Word: decently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...campaigned with an effectiveness that surprised even his closest friends. Like many a candidate before him, he promised to clean up polluted streams and provide decent facilities for the state's mentally ill. But as soon as Big Jim took his oath, he began to do something about these promises. He asked the legislature for $140 million to spend on conservation and public health. To raise the money, he suggested increasing cigarette taxes, imposing a new tax on soft drinks and reinstating a tax on capital stocks...
every publication "says" something about the world. The Manchester Guardian has a personality, a tone, that says: "People are decent; if they would only realize that and trust each other, we should get along better." The accents of the New York Daily News say: "Look out, bud; they're going to gyp you." The Times says: "It's all very difficult, but with close attention to the homework, we may figure it out." Does TIME say: "It's a dreadful and wonderful world; some of it makes sense, some nonsense; to tell which is which is what...
...performance of their functions. . . ." This was magnificent bureaucratic jabberwocky, but everybody agreed that it was a compromise : the House of Lords was going to be reformed, and Labor would let the Tories have a say in it. Said,the Marquess of Salisbury: change would now come "in a decent, orderly British manner...
...Decent Burial (Cont...
Anent your story, Decent Burial [TIME, Jan. 12], those genuinely concerned over the rackets which flourish upon the dead will be interested in the following...