Word: decently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nazi field commanders, trying to hold waverers in line, were patently annoyed at the "safe-conduct" passes dropped by Allied planes on German positions, which as a rule promise the bearer unmolested passage through the lines and decent treatment in captivity. Recently the night-flying Luftwaffe has been dropping on Allied positions the German retort, a mock pass which reads...
...Welcome Guests. From then on all the batches who came were decent, and we enjoyed having them around and felt very sorry they couldn't accept the hospitality of our homes, as the majority were ordered to stand by their equipment. The sights we saw as we walked to the shops, bus and work were sometimes funny - and sometimes rather...
...spotlights a Southern squatter community, called Poor Boy, and follows the dreamy, hard-drinking career of a onetime highly-paid war worker, called Spence Douthit, who amiably man ages to resist every attempted reform -including his own delinquent daughter's. Caldwell's characters, as usual, outrage every decent instinct and stir every other kind...
Harold LeClare Ickes turned his curmudgeonly thumbs down on Gerald L. K. Smith's request for a Yellowstone Park buffalo as an "American First" mascot saying he doubted that any decent buffalo could "bear such a stigma." The Secretary of the Interior also suggested last fortnight that Hamilton Fish should be "fried not only on one side, but on both." This week Representative Fish sizzled into rhyme...
...processes continuing with a "purring" noise. If he tried hard, he managed to recapture physical sensations and sensual memories of Mimi. But to his horror he found himself faced by the same spiritual problems as had dogged him on earth. A "divine white light" kept trying to make a decent human being out of him, but Eustace preferred to float vacuously throughout eternity rather than give...