Word: decently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Road. In Pensacola, Fla., Daisy Weatherington, hitchhiking in a strapless evening gown, was picked up by suspicious police, explained that the dress was "the only decent thing I had to wear...
...event like the Grand Premiere of the Old Howard's new vaudeville policy, however, a man could. Mother and a shy looking little girl wearing the forest green of the Girl Scouts completed the family group. Scattered through the sparse audience one could see whole clusters of Decent Citizens. The balcony, if nearly empty, had a more familiar look. A few soldiers on leave, four or five black-jacketed motorcyclists, and a pair of youths in red blazers lettered "M-I-T" looked down from the lower horseshoe...
...General Eisenhower as soon as he was nominated, but Grant stopped it. Said he: "We'll wait for the Democrats, see who they nominate and decide then." But the Journal did not decide until Ike campaigned in the Midwest and met McCarthy. "Ike didn't keep a decent distance," said Hoben, "and we did think he showed insufficient strength in dissociating himself from McCarthy. From then on, it was impossible for us to back Ike." Even the two of the six editorial writers who voted for Ike agreed that "the Journal's traditions made it necessary...
...famed French painter, is that rare product from the film industry, a work of rich, individual temperament. As he made clear in Grand Illusion (1938) and The River (1951), Director Renoir is often too full of beautiful things he wants to say to pay a decent respect to how he says them. Bad scenes stand out glaringly against the fine features of his films. The story sometimes has to snore in the parlor while Renoir fondly lingers to adjust an esthetic or intellectual spit curl. All the same, his pulsing joy in all he feels and sees sweeps through...
...from dying. So he teams up for a while with a stouthearted nun and works mightily, washing and laying out corpses. But this, too, fails him when he realizes that the fearless nun does not really care whether people stay alive; she only wants them to look "clean and decent" at the Resurrection. "He's tricked us!" she shouts furiously when one of the "corpses" sits up. "He's alive, and I washed his backside...