Word: decentered
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...estate, had sold the stock to pay estate taxes. He had not foreseen the dividend slash (it was forced by a rise in Canada's cost-of-living index, to which the company's wage scale is tied). Obviously, said Michel, after what had happened the decent thing was to take back the stock. That was just what he had done...
...officially celebrated early in June in hope of decent weather...
...voice had the gently feminine tone of a bent gong. "I'm looking for just one thing-money, money, money." She hadn't expected to attract so much attention, and she hoped it wouldn't embarrass her parents (with whom her children live). She favored a "decent type" for a husband, someone "not too old." And in a hurry. She had enough money to last about a week...
...Back." Reuther seemed disturbed by the course of national politics. He was afraid "a lot of decent guys" would vote for Henry Wallace if the Democrats renominated President Harry Truman. He said he thought it tragic that Truman had inherited the presidency "at a time when the world needs great leadership." He believed Supreme Court Justice William Douglas could be elected, that labor could back him with a vast campaign if he were nominated by the Democrats...
...courts. Without doubt, this was a momentous decision in U.S. judicial history. It would set off no violent upheaval in the pattern of city life. But it removed one of the weapons by which segregation is enforced, and would give the Negro an increasingly better chance to make a decent life for himself...