Word: decentered
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...bathtubs and then, clean and in fresh clothes, they were put to bed in sunlit rooms with flowers. Whole blood was transfused into the emaciated bodies, nourishment was injected intravenously when they could not digest strengthening soups. But more than anything else, the simple fact of humane care and decent surroundings had its effect. In the first two days after the 120th moved in, only two men died...
...games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives, the fixed resolve not to quit; an act of renunciation which must be made not once but many times by the power of the will. . . . Some men were able to see more fully than others could that there was no decent alternative to sticking it out and to see this not in a hot moment of impulse but steadily through many months of trial. They understood on what terms life was worthwhile...
...common English heart than the words of a British private during the Presidential campaign last year: "Wot do I know about it? All I know is this: there's bloody little future 'ere. . . .But blokes what come through ought to 'ave the right to decent 'omes, decent wages and money enough to put by to take care of our babies. I've seen F.D.R...
...classrooms in shambles. The damage-which added up to $5,000 in a five-page, single-spaced report-was so extensive that school had to be let out for the day. The three boys, traced through some model airplanes they had stolen from the school, are from decent but cramped homes. Questioned by police, they said that they were just having a little...
...army into Poland." For his labors, he got a 1939 Pulitzer Prize and 18 months in a German internment camp. On his return to the U.S. he preached from lecture platform, book and radio that Hitler is fighting a "one-man war" and that Germany has a "Front of Decent People...