Word: decently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...violate Lucita, an Indian slave-girl: he calmed his conscience by muttering that she was "scarcely more than an animal." And when he met his branded, filthy, full-eyed, Indian field hands for the first time, Ricardo's only thought was how awful it was that a decent white man should have to put up with such stinking savages...
...Takers of the City is the story of how young Ricardo, helped by Lucita, underwent a change of heart and became a decent human being. It is also a well-painted picture, rich in color and action, of 16th Century Mexican life...
Despite Gisevius' "terrible accusation," Frau Von Blomberg, now 34, hopes to go to work for the Americans. "I want it to be a decent job," she said...
From This Day Forward (RKO Radio) is a tardy but sincere filming of Thomas Bell's All Brides Are Beautiful, a novel (1936) about Depression in The Bronx. Its theme: the effort of decent, poor newlyweds to live as well as they can. Its thesis: love and fortitude can handle anything that economic injustice throws their way. The story is told mainly in flashbacks as Bill Cummings (Mark Stevens) goes through his old, familiar, woeful process of looking...
...opinion and the ruling circles of all States" as the two forces that can win the peace. It was the clearest recognition Stalin had ever given to the power of public opinion. Even Stalin, apparently, agreed with the signers of the Declaration of Independence in the necessity for a "decent respect for the opinions of mankind...