Word: decentered
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...said. "But the Jews, scattered all over the world-what chance have they to fight off hatred and oppression which has driven them from their homes and dumped them on the highways of the world? The Jews are a minority everywhere. And without tolerance and decent treatment of minorities, democracy cannot survive. There is no exception...
...wife, gives way to drink and inertia. An accident of ward politics makes this picturesque bum of crucial importance in a municipal election. How this situation affects him and his lively little son and daughter is revealed by Director Kanin with a maximum of warm, perceptive humor, a decent minimum of emotional climaxes...
...three decades of research on the heredity mechanism of the genes and chromosomes he has a strong opinion on the first thing that biology should teach humanity: "All men are created unequal. No politics or poetry or dogma in this; just a straight clean fact of prime importance to decent thinking on human social problems; and possibly a fact that must be learned, digested and assimilated . . . before unreason ceases to be a threat to all forms of democratic government...
...resolution unanimously condemning "all persecutions from racial or religious motives which place a number of human beings in the impossibility of obtaining a decent livelihood...
...have Hitler's fanatical face staring at us from the New Year's first issue of TIME, so soon after a season associated with the spirit of "Peace on Earth, Good Will to Men," would be a shock to the sensibilities of all decent-hearted people and an insult to the democracy that is our country's most glorious tradition...