Word: human
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coventry, an industrialist who had been in charge of large aircraft undertakings during the war talked about the economy under Socialism. His conclusion: "In a human sense it's regrettable, but inescapable. Nationalism and equality are inefficient...
...most terrible of human forces-fright-was abroad in Britain. The people were frightened, as Dunkirk, blitz and buzzbombs had never frightened them...
Something besides fright and disillusionment was abroad in Britain. This disaster gave neither call nor lift to the human spirit, as had Dunkirk and the bombs. But one quality of the people stood out: Britons blamed only Britons. Gone was the cloying tendency to blame everything on the war and bad luck. Britons looked to themselves as they had not for a long time. That is their strength, and it may be their salvation...
...could not bear to leave the ramparts of the King's English unmanned. Last week the Times fired away at the word personnel, "this alien collective" from across the Channel. It doubted that "a more degrading, a more ill-favoured, synonym for two or more members of the human race has . . . been coined...
...possession of. They do not ask, they make application for. . . . They cannot eat, they only consume; they perform ablutions; instead of homes they have places of residence in which, instead of living, they are domiciled. They are not cattle, they are not ciphers, they certainly are not human beings: they are personnel...