Word: decently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eliminate or control all German industry that could be used for military production . . . wipe out the Nazi party, Nazi laws, organizations and institutions. . . . It is not our purpose to destroy the people of Germany. But only when Naziism and militarism have been extirpated will there be hope for a decent life for Germans. . . ." Reparations. Germany must pay "to the greatest extent possible." A commission sitting in Moscow will add up the bill, collect "in kind" (i.e., in goods and labor...
...peace is this Dumbarton Oaks charter asking us to guarantee? Until that question can be answered in a way to satisfy the moral demands of the American people, any effort to make them rise to enthusiastic support of Dumbarton Oaks is just so much time wasted. . . . Win a decent peace, a reconciling peace, and a true 'general international organization' for its maintenance will become not only possible but inevitable. But let that peace degenerate into a vicious scramble for power blocs, for puppets and satellites, for empire, for trade advantages, for strategic frontiers, and the Dumbarton Oaks scheme...
...survey showed that super-salesmanship, when people's resistance is lowest, sometimes inveigles the bereaved into spending three or four times the deceased's monthly income for a decent burial. Some undertakers, said the survey, fix fees on the basis of the amount of insurance the deceased carried. During a plush year the average cost of burying a body is $410. Said the Federal Council: "Competition in the funeral business is not in terms of price and quality, but competition for the possession of bodies...
...blitzkrieg which made it seem as if he had the public in back of him." Although his 1940 campaign was conservative, Robertson emphasizes, the Republican leader underwent a change toward liberalism in the four years that followed. "He became more educated," Robertson claims, "and his unsuccessful Wisconsin campaign was decent and honest...
...modeled the homely, arrogant little dancer in the nude, then, with breath-taking disregard for tradition, dressed her in linen waist and muslin skirt. The public was more amazed by the covering of this figure (solemnly exhibited like a doll dressed in real clothes) than it usually is by decent, or even indecent, exposure. Degas never again exhibited his sculpture...