Word: decentered
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...scarce list were also a good many cosmetics (especially the alcohol-consuming colognes), good leather handbags and gloves, books (at least the ones people asked for, including a surprising demand for scarce encyclopedias and dictionaries). "Decent" lingerie-in both senses of the word-was also hard...
...Manhattan for a big weekend, is promptly ditched by his hot date (Audrey Christie), left high & dry in her friend Sally's flat (a living room, bedroom and kitchen that Scene Designer Stewart Chancy has expertly squeezed into a single set). Bill and Sally get acquainted: Bill is decent, down to earth, off love since it scorched him a few years back. Sally is sweet, self-dramatizing, off love since it scorched her a week ago Tuesday. Because it is raining and he is tired and has no hotel room, Bill spends Friday night on the living-room couch...
...last Yale-Harvard game to be played in decent weather was an accident. The weather man overslept and forgot to turn on the wind-snow-rain-cold-fog machine. He'd been out the night before celebrating South Carolina's secession from the Union...
...Prisoners of long standing reported camp conditions in 1940-41 "not too good," but generally "decent" now. Chief cause of improvement: removal of youthful swaggering Storm Troopers, and their replacement by 16-year-olds and invalided older...
...hour was late. "Peaceful and decent Frenchmen," awaiting invasion, would know how to deal with "Plan...