Word: decently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Decent Chaps. In Newark, stickup men robbed George B. Chandless Jr. of a $900 payroll, kindly paused in their getaway to hand him back his chocolate bar and licorice stick...
...American magazine last week: "We never would have been attacked by the Japanese if we had not given them provocation. ... If we had kept out of the immediate conflict, we could have put our sword down on the table, with our economic resources intact, and made a decent peace when the time for peacemaking came. I never believed Britain was in danger of defeat. When Germany attacked Russia, it made a British victory possible...
...Joseph ("Sepp") Dietrich, onetime butcher boy and personal bodyguard to Hitler, was a failure. "He had at most the ability to command a division," said Goring of the general whose blundering cost the Germans some 37,000 men at the Battle of the Bulge. "Dietrich," said Rundstedt simply, "is decent, but stupid." After the war, however, Dietrich found a job where he was really appreciated...
...Hellinger's The Killers. The Killers may have been hammy, but it was grade-A ham, so adroitly served up that the picture got on several of last year's ten-best lists. Brute Force is a prisoner of all the old jailbreak cliches. There is the decent but weak warden (Roman Bohnen) who can't control his mild but maniacal head guard (Hume Cronyn), a sadist who plays Wagner while softening up a prisoner with a rubber hose. There is the boozy prison doctor (Art Smith) with a heart of gold and some of the crummiest...
...hands in their turn, Republicans glowered. Colorado Senator Eugene D. Millikin, floor manager for the bill, had proclaimed the G.O.P. position during the debate. He had called the President's action a "foolish veto" prompted by "sheer ignorance or sheer demagoguery." Other Presidents, Millikin had said, had "a decent respect for the right of Congress to control fiscal policy...