Word: human
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Catastrophe. Further questions and objections pointed up risks which were moral as well as economic. Human nature being what it is, U.S. financial intervention might earn America the resentment, even the hate of beneficiaries. The program opened up a road with no visible end. Along that road were other nations in almost as desperate straits as Greece. Who would be next to need U.S. help...
...proper study of babies is puppies," said Lawrence K. Frank, father of six, director of Manhattan's Caroline Zachry Institute on Human Development, in the New York Times Magazine. Pups, like babies, are helpless, demanding, and brainless, should be nuzzled and fed frequently. Readers' conclusion: prospective parents should have a puppy first...
...From the time of Lenin . . . every Communist has been drilled to believe that in the world there are only two divisions of mankind: the Communists, and all the rest. . . . When the Communist sings 'The international Party shall be the human race' he means what he says and he expresses his view of the process by which alone he thinks that ultimate difference [between peoples] can be overcome...
...Charles Malik, Lebanese delegate to U.N., offered a little suggestion to his fellow statesmen: do not forget "the individual human person." Mused Philosopher Malik: "Who is this person? This person ... is the living, dying man, who suffers and rebels, is scared, makes mistakes . . . hesitates . . . gossips . . . even blushes and laughs. . . . This being ... is in danger of being drowned and obscured by ... systems. . . . We need champions of the mind and spirit...
...Experiments. Liveliest subject : the dog shortage. The doctors agreed that anti-vivisectionists and other organized dog lovers who care more for a few dogs than for millions of human beings were blocking medical progress.* Said Dr. Carl J. Wiggers of Western Reserve University: "We may have millions for research . . . but if we have no dogs, this foundation may as well fold...