Word: decently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...carpetbagging." Then, dropping the toga of statesmanship that he has recently stitched up for use in Washington (TIME, Oct. 15), Herman added: "The time has come when the people of the South must appeal from those damnable decisions of the Supreme Court to the court of last resort, the decent white people of America...
Coach Nat Harris says the Yardlings have "a fairly decent team, though probably not as good as last year's." He predicts a "rough, hard game, since Arlington has always been one of the better teams in the Greater Boston League...
...marriage was arranged, rather vaguely, for some time after the 1955 Pan-American games in Mexico City. Parry figured on a decent waiting period for Mexican red tape. The day after the shot-put competition (which Parry won), the engaged pair went down to the Mexican hall of records to start the paper work...
...today's] world, at such a time, decent respect for the opinion of mankind-in the words of our Declaration of Independence-requires that we state plainly the purposes we seek, the principles we hold. What" are the true marks of our America, and what do they mean to the world? We are a people born of many peoples. Our culture, our skills, our very aspirations have been shaped by immigrants and their sons and daughters from all the earth. We know, as our forefathers knew, the firm ground on which our beliefs must stand. Freedom is rooted...
...Communist China "to give their strength and enthusiasm" to "the newest America, the earth's old country, the ancestor's land." Author Han Suyin is not so crude as to line up on the Communist side herself, but most of the native characters who are decent and serious are sympathetic to the People Inside; the despicable ones are antiCommunist, usually for despicable reasons. The whites are divided just as clearly: the thickheaded colonials who don't know the score; the sensitive cops like Luke Davis, who has the uneasy feeling that he is on the wrong side...