Word: decently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good, warmhearted, admirable people who "deserve much better than they receive." When he left, realizing his chances were slight of ever seeing Russia again, "a sort of sadness and depression . . . settled over me. Yet I know that, as surely as light follows darkness, the problems created in a decent people by the forced maintenance of power will somehow in the end destroy that power...
Alan Steinert, CCA president, said two days before election was certain, that although he was "nominally" not a CCA-man, he was "a perfectly decent fellow, a good man. I think Watson is on the side of the angels...
...Tung first swept down from the north of China, there was a sentiment akin to satisfaction in many non-Communist, liberal circles. Favored among the terms describing the revolution were "agrarian reform" and "the real will of the Chinese people." Supposedly, the Chinese communists were fairly decent reformers who were completing China's fight against Japanese domination by ending the joint rule of Chaing Kai-Shek and corruption...
...that old egghead T. Jefferson had been possessed of her spirit, he would never have suggested to the frightened appeasers who adopted our Declaration of Independence that they include in it those weasel words: "With a decent regard for the opinions of mankind...
Busy Presses. After the ravages of more than three years of war, it will take more than candy, bubble gum and "al kine camera bag" to supply a decent living standard for South Korea's 22 million people. In three years, 600,000 homes have been destroyed; because of a high birth rate and the influx of tens of thousands of refugees, 900,000 new or rebuilt houses are needed. Coal production is down 50% from prewar. Grain output, the core of Korea's economy, is off from 3,500,000 tons...