Word: human
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after being defeated in its anti-Peron tactics, is now wooing Argentina, was not to be outdone. Said he: "... I am thinking of the objectives and ideals which have always motivated our peoples . . . impulses [which] have been in great part, as you say, Mr. Ambassador, profoundly Christian and profoundly human. ... I hope your stay in Washington will be thoroughly pleasant...
Ironically, the crime of devouring human flesh was so unthinkable that it was not listed in international law, was not clearly punishable as a crime in itself. The evidence* could be used only to support such formal charges as murder or prevention of honorable burial...
...years Li Lisan was filed away, like Josip Broz (now Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito) and Boleslaw Rutkowski (now Poland's President Bierut), in Moscow's human archives. But last week Li was back in the inner circles of the Yenan Government. Some thought they recognized his dynamic hand already in reports that Yenan was considering superseding the present loose union of local Communist governments with a strong central regime...
...consolation of the village church. But as the 19th Century unfolded its industrial and scientific secrets, Hardy became convinced that the Christian God would slowly recede into the limbo of forgotten mythologies. As an atheist, he accepted such a development as inevitable; as an artist and a tenderhearted human being, he was horrified...
Much of No Woman's World reads about as a woman's war report might be expected to read: human-interest stories, hard-boiled anecdotes, Perils-of-Pauline asides. In field hospitals Correspondent Carpenter saw "the hideous mess which high-explosive makes of human flesh." In newly liberated Paris she lived on "K rations, cognac and champagne." On the Rhine she rushed over the newly captured Remagen Bridge while MPs shouted, "Keep ten paces between you and the next guy-it's hot around here...