Word: decentered
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...informal manners and poverty not only made him feel at ease, but gave him dignity. To the amazement of his superiors in London, he became a respected, hard working civil servant. He made his first return to England at the age of 30 with a bride, a decent salary, and his first novel, The Macdermots of Ballycloran...
...first the committee had felt disposed to blame only one of the club's 1,550 members. But regretfully they had come to the conclusion that more were involved. If the revelation did not shame the culprits into decent behavior, said the tart letter, the committee would not hesitate, under Rule 29, to invoke the extreme penalty: expulsion from the club for unbecoming conduct...
...that a decent period of mourning is over, it seems not inappropriate to attempt historical appraisal of the great Presidency recently ended. There is no more accurate nor fairer way of doing this than to rank the late President Roosevelt relatively with his illustrious predecessors in office. I therefore submit the following rating of the 31 Presidencies in the hope that it might interest your readers...
...first-rate screen material. The handling of the industrial warfare, however, leaves something to be desired. Though the human tragedy involved is played to the hilt, not enough attention is given to the real issues involved, the issue of men versus capital, the fight of American labor to gain decent working conditions in heavy industry. But MGM is to be commended for the lack of bias in its presentation, even though it has failed to get at the heart of the warfare...
...election eve Churchill felt victory "in his bones," warned that "if there should be a landslide to the left, many countries on the Continent would slide, not into decent socialism, but into the violence of Communism. . . .If we go down, all the ninepins of Europe will fall." Then the Prime Minister breezed off to Hendaye, in the French Basque country, for a much needed rest...