Word: decently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tragedy of Erna Schmidt is the tragedy of all decent men and women, "the little people," who are blamed for the maniacal deeds of their rulers. The girls, in their patriotic fervor, try to focus all their unresolved thinking, all their unresolved thinking, all their hatred of Germany, upon her, trying to create of her an image of the Nazi regime...
...fundamental questions to which the present war is seeking the answers. This is a job for us, the generation which is going to fight the war and live in the peace. It is one we must tackle seriously and boldly if we are to make any sort of decent...
...there were a reasonable government in Japan, there would be a basis for settlement and we would have to make a fair adjustment. However, for the last 10 years the "young colonel" group of Japanese Army officers with dreams of conquest has captured control and stifled all liberal and decent opinion. It is this unreasonable government, which has the same psychology as the Nazis, that we must fight against...
...just like my name. It makes Tonlin cry when she reads that I am a dead accident. . . . My leg is broke and there are bumps on my head but I am alive and not a dead accident. . . . Don't make any mistake next Tuesday and give me a decent Christian burial because I don't want...
Wall Street brokers a year ago, never got what he thought a decent offer. Vultee's bid was made more tempting to him by two side dishes: 1) he will stay in Con-solidated-Vultee as an adviser at $60,000 annually for five years;* 2) by selling now he dodges the much higher capital gains taxes likely...