Word: decently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Right. Sokolsky's friends have a higher regard for his knowledge of philosophy, history and art than for his expertness in politics. "George," says one of them, "is a decent, sentimental fellow, but I've always told him he is the biggest imbecile politically that I ever knew. He just should not butt into politics...
...editorials varied. For example, the New York Tribune: "If poisonous gases can be used in warfare, the way is opened to a general relapse to ancient methods of savagery." The Washington Post: ". . . Since all the nations at war have violated some compact or other . . . suffocation by gas is as decent a method of murder as blowing up trenches by mines, torpedoing a vessel or dropping bombs from an airship...
Mark Clark learned what negotiators with the Communists have always learned: that the only argument they respect is force. He rattles no sabres but neither does he harbor any illusions. Like all decent men, he was glad that "the armistice had ended the killing. But when I signed the armistice, I knew, of course, that it was not over-that the struggle against Communism would not be over in my lifetime. The Korean war was a skirmish, a bloody, costly skirmish, fought on the perimeter of the free world...
...easier to find her teeth. Hemper hopes to take advantage of the fire to steal and "measure" Agatha's baby (he will give her a clockwork one. made by Applesmith. instead). Also among the "fire-raisers" are an innocent Kaffir boy, who merely wants to cook a decent meal, and Negro Servant Benjamin, who has lost patience with the sickness of his masters. "Burn, Africa, burn," he cries, as he strikes his match, "to tell the white man that danger is before him. Burn, to tell him that we are Africans, that we are men, that...
Sampling Method. In Meriden, Conn., Gordon A. Sanderson, 31, nabbed after police found him peeping in the windows of houses on Gilbert Road, protested that he was considering moving into the area and just wanted to make sure that his neighbors would be "quiet, decent people...