Word: decently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...election eve Churchill felt victory "in his bones," warned that "if there should be a landslide to the left, many countries on the Continent would slide, not into decent socialism, but into the violence of Communism. . . .If we go down, all the ninepins of Europe will fall." Then the Prime Minister breezed off to Hendaye, in the French Basque country, for a much needed rest...
...party. It was easy to see that many present did not dare speak their minds-it had been too long since they last could. Others were unable to grasp this new thing, free speech. But it was as fine a start and as encouraging a seed of a decent new Reich as I could have wished...
Horrible Tortures. The examination of the living witnesses was a rapid affair. First Police Inspector Enrico Morazzini confirmed what he wrote to the court some days ago. Judge Maroni interrupted: "There is no need to read it out. The description of the tortures is too horrible for decent people to hear." Then it was the turn of Cinema Producer Count Luchino, Visconti di Modrone, a witness for the defense...
...World War II neutrality (TIME, May 21), Eamon de Valera replied: "I have deliberately decided that ... I will not be guilty of adding any fuel to the flames of hatred and passion which, if continued to be fed, promise to burn up whatever is left by the war of decent human feeling in Europe. Allowances can be made for Mr. Churchill's statement, however unworthy, in the first flush of his victory...
...standards of living depend not only on what is in the pay envelope, but on what we can buy with it. The only effective protection the American worker has against so-called foreign competition is not a tariff barrier against foreign goods, but efficient production at home and a decent standard of living abroad...