Word: decently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hitting, however, has been sporadic. Although the Yardlings have outscored their visitors, 34 to 10, they didn't do too well against decent pitching. Dixon of MIT limited them to two runs on six hits two weeks ago, and North of Brown yielded three runs on only four hits last Saturday...
...original Ku Klux Klan of Reconstruction days," the ad said, "was an organization of heroes [which] served to protect life and property at a time when there was a complete breakdown of decent government. That condition does not now exist ... In our opinion, we do not need an organization which operates in concealment and ... is destructive to our democratic way of life...
This week, the Communist radio blared out an ultimatum: Li had just three days to say yes or no to Mao's "peace" terms. Yes or no, Li Tsung-jen's dream of decent peace and a non-Communist China south of the Yangtze was fading fast...
...backing him, but he was not ready to name them last week. Apparently he did not speak for B'nai B'rith's Anti-Defamation League, whose national director, Benjamin R. Epstein, declared: "We believe Mr. Goldstein's threatened resort to litigation . . . is unwise. A decent respect for academic freedom means that the police power of the state is resorted to only in those cases where the material is intended to undermine the democratic fabric and even then, only in extreme cases...
...field swarmed with old and young BLC players, some balding businessmen, some recent college graduates, all wearing the gaudy orange sweaters of the BLC and all raring to get a little exercise on the first decent spring day of the year...