Word: decentered
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...January, on their mother's 20th birthday, they were taken home to the simple Townsend cottage in Tofield. Soon they went back to the Hospital for careful study, because their parents had agreed with Dr. Freebury that they should be separated. Said Elizabeth Townsend: "They would have no decent, proper lives the way they are. It is better to accept what risks there are in the operation...
...free international business. Prophet Woodruff swept pessimism aside. Said he last week: "We're not selling the world short, we're playing the world long. We decided that we would live with the world and that the world would survive, that it must survive, as a decent place to live...
...years ago, troubled by the crime-crammed, sexy comic books his eight-year-old daughter brought home, Vicar Morris asked himself why comic-book techniques could not be used "to spread decent, healthy Christian ideals and still be amusing and entertaining." With an artist friend he prepared dummies and peddled his plan from publisher to publisher until it was accepted by the huge and profitable Hulton Press, owners of the Picture Post (circ. 1,500,000). Its first issue a fortnight ago was a 750,000-copy sellout. For last week's issue newsdealers had placed cash-backed orders...
Wrote Jones to the subcommittee: "I think [RFC] should be given a decent burial, lock, stock & barrel. None of the emergency conditions which prompted [its] creation exists today. When the Government finances business, it is competing with private enterprise from which it gets much of its income. When it finances improvident business, it takes from the profits of competing business, gets no taxes from the improvident, and loses on its loan...
...condemn syndicated crime and vice. It is as despicable as it is evil. We condemn the underworld and all its barbarous and cowardly ways. But we condemn also the overworld-liquor executives, public officials . . . and the like who, though able to retain the aura of respectability, sacrifice every decent principle for their own contemptible and selfish ends...