Word: decentered
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...human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation...
...hardly recommend a better fighting locus than this area. If the United States got into a war fought in that area it would be because our people wanted to fight regardless of issues. Manchuria is no Belgium, politically or geographically, and the potential belligerents would doubtless pay a decent respect to our insignificant interests there...
...hold one; the country is duty bound to accomplish this even at the expense of forcing the permanent discontinuation of the huge bonuses paid to industrialists. Any man who can take a million-dollar bonus while others are crying for jobs and for bread must be forced into decent generosity if his conscience does not prick him into...
...imperiled his own life by commuting Frank's sentence to life imprisonment. One attempt to kill Frank failed. The second, with young Bunce Napier at the wheel, succeeded. Frank was driven 110 mi. from the State penitentiary at Milledgeville to Marietta, hanged near Mary Phagan's birthplace. Decent Georgians still blush over the case...
...Senator Austin forced him to admit that at a meeting with airmail contractors last autumn-a meeting not unlike the "spoils conferences" which cost them their contracts-he had sought their "advice and consent" before cutting appropriations under a reduced budget. It was, he thought, the "wise and decent thing to do." Of mail operations under the Brown regime he said: "It was a very high record of service and I wanted to continue...