Word: decently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...faculty should be put on a full-time basis with "decent salaries. . . . They should be free to engage in any outside activities they like. To make sure that the ones they like are . . . good for them ... all their outside earnings [should go] to the University...
...first hand, all this time, Alex watches Fascism become real, become bold, become imperious. A decent man, he is dismayed by what he sees; a muddled man, he hangs onto the hope that somehow good will come of evil; a man whose stake is in the status quo, he instinctively makes out a case for appeasement. No figure of real power himself, Alex yet remains the spokesman for the official blunders, delays, defections that made Munich no terminus but merely the last stop before Armageddon...
...spring this trap, so cunningly prepared by the arch-criminals of our times, we shall destroy not only the city of the Popes and capital of Christendom . . . but destroy our own prestige and thereby make a decent peace almost impossible. Countless millions of people in Europe and in South America would turn resolutely from the nation which . . . dared to raze the beloved shrines of the Christian centuries...
...battle. They march toward the camera. One young fellow on the sidelines is smiling, almost with jubilation. There are no other smiles. One gaunt man, his face drawn with sleeplessness and a sense of death, glances up. His eyes reveal both his lack of essential hostility and his profound, decent resentment of the camera's intrusion. Just as he leaves the picture he makes a face, as a father might make a face at a child. In his eyes, in his grimace, he looks into the eyes of every civilian and whatever face that civilian is capable of wearing...
...There he and his buddies fill the subways, the busses, the cabs, the theaters, the pubs and hotel bars. In astonishing numbers they go to gawk through the iron fence at Buckingham Palace in the hope of seeing the King. Says a cockney, also gawking: "He's a decent bloke, you know. Works hard. I wouldn't have his job." Says G.I. Joe: "Yeah, not much chance for promotion...