Word: human
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Occasionally it was heard. It was dubbed into a 40-minute film, Deadline for Action, put out by the Red-wired United Electrical Workers and run off in C.I.O. union halls. Said the voice of F.D.R.: "We ... are not making all this sacrifice of human effort and human lives to return to the kind of world we had after the last World War." But the film was really a buckshot charge against U.S. business; it deftly followed the Communist line...
...down for lack of raw materials and of automobile companies scrapping their plans to expand. All this in a country which persists in shipping large quantities of many much-desired articles to a country like Marshal Tito's Yugoslavia, in which our own citizens and other friends of human freedom, such as Archbishop Stepinac, have been maltreated and killed...
...sort of town meeting of the world which can discuss anything, make recommendations to the Security Council and the member nations on almost anything. CJ Holds U.N.'s fragile purse strings. <¶Supervises U.N.'s subsidiary agencies, such as the Economic & Social Council (material progress and human betterment), and the not-yet-established
...cavalier estimation of Walt Whitman. Recognition is coming to him as potential philosopher and friend. He may not quite meet the test of "a very delectable, highly respectable, thrippenny bus young man," the role so coveted by Bunthorne. But at least, the clusterers seem to say, he is human. Of course, that may not be what they will be saying after the blue books...
...asked the admiring young thing. "Naturally," said the skywriter. "Last week, for instance, I got the P in Pepsi-Cola upside down." "Oh, my! Whatever did you do?" "I scooted behind the nearest cloud and spelled 'DAMN.'" Advertising in the sky is no longer subject to such human frailties or bad jokes. In the New York City area last week, the second of three block-long dirigibles went aloft on an advertising mission. Its message, plugging Ford, flashed along its side in moving letters 20 feet high...