Word: decentered
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...guess whether the engagement is official or whether they just like each other very, very much. But when, in two pictures so close together as Mission to Moscow (TIME, May 10) and This Is the Army, the President is referred to with such breath-catching reverence, it seems only decent that the audience should dim the lights, steal out softly, and leave them alone together...
Through the confusion strode troubled Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, urging the crowds to go home, trying to justify the hope of decent Americans that the race problem need not be thrashed out in wartime violence. Said he, irascible but patient, with his own peculiar dignity...
...Persons leaving the isolation of the WRA centers for the first time are amazed at the decent public treatment accorded them. As they go farther from the camp and the West Coast, their fears vanish, and the heartaches of the past year and a half seem almost like dreams. The transition back into America's life-stream is neither painful nor difficult...
Captain Alec S. Cunningham-Reid, M.P., divorced Social Lioness Ruth Mary Clarisse Ashley in 1940 and sued for half her $400,000 annual income. One thing he could not forget about their honeymoon was her insistence that they share her wealth because "no decent woman likes to have a man live with her in charity." Later that year, M.P.s accused the Captain of visiting Doris Duke Cromwell in Honolulu to duck the Blitz. He said he went to evacuate 500 British children. Minister of Information Brendan Bracken called it "beachcombing in Honolulu...
...blocks from the city hall white mobs ambushed Negroes driving from war plants, beat and stripped them, tipped and burned their cars. Other mobs fired Negro homes. Long lines of beaten, slashed, wounded Detroiters jammed hospitals awaiting treatment. Thirteen elementary schools were closed. Many a decent citizen stayed at home, afraid to go outside...