Word: human
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...government that is willing to assist in the task of recovery will find full cooperation on the part of the U.S. . . . Any government which maneuvers to block the recovery of other countries cannot expect help from us. Furthermore, governments, political parties or groups which seek to perpetuate human misery in order to profit therefrom politically or otherwise will encounter the opposition...
...Lincoln, slumped comfortably in "a Roman chair, embodies the best in Daniel French's art. Despite its size, the statue looks human enough to be a real person-somehow marbleized. The quiet hands rest loosely, and inappropriately, on chair arms ornamented with bundled rods in bas-relief: symbols of Rome's imperial power. The dramatic spotlighting, which the sculptor fiddled with for seven years after his Lincoln was installed, lends mystery to what is essentially a competent, straightforward portrait; Daniel was never one to take liberties with his subjects. "He was all for tradition and a grave, measured...
...Whitey Abel, as surprised as nearly everyone else at Long Island's Aqueduct track, dropped his binoculars in the excitement. But ancient Honey Cloud, winner of the first race he had run in nearly six years, took it calmly. At the great age of 13 (comparable to a human's 45 years), the old horse stepped into the winner's circle as if he did such things every...
...gnawing fear is not necessarily a handicap; it may be an asset. Dr. Earl D. Bond, a University of Pennsylvania psychiatry professor, assured a convention of insurance doctors in Asheville, N.C. that "normal" people are not very "interesting''; they don't even seem to be entirely human. Other Bond findings...
...being given by Short Laig and his C.I.O. brethren. The C.I.O.-U.A.W. workers had walked right past the picket lines of the foremen, some of whom were elderly, prosperous-looking men in decorous blue serge suits. Even their signs had a decorous, plaintive ring: "What Has Happened to Human Relations...