Word: decently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...government cultivates the masses as diligently as they cultivate the soil.For outstanding production, farmers and workers win citations, newspaper publicity, awards. Industry (oil, pig iron, light machinery, light arms, paper, textiles) is primitive and small-scale. But all labor is unionized, guaranteed decent wages, penalized for absenteeism, tardiness...
...about it afterward. St. Louisans, white and Negro, let's act like civilized human beings! Let's put hooligans of both races-the lunatic fringe-in jail to cool off when they begin flexing their muscles in public places! Let's continue our old tradition of decent relations between the races...
...just idling off when a fellow on a bike buzzed up. "I want you," he said. "Your place has copped it." He lent me the bike-decent bloke he was-and I burned up the main road toward home. Soon as I got near I could see it was close -crowds and the most awful bloody wreckage all over the lot, police lines streets away. ... I took a quick look. Our house was standing-well, more or less standing. But it was blitzed to bloody hell-the roof clean off, the windows and doors gone, the walls sagging...
...blast. Where most Londoners live, in these miserable little brick houses which fall to dust and rubble a dozen at a time, when a bomb falls in the road it's different. But really what gets me down most is living alone-no love, no kids, no decent food...
...German formula for recovery and reaggression after World War I, also examined by these books, is still the German formula, as no less an authority than Joseph Goebbels made clear last week when he asked the world to believe that the Germans are decent and worthy people who mean well...