Word: human
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Night after that, treating the Queen to Thanksgiving turkey at the U.S. embassy residence, Nixon even got an unexpected human plus. Somebody in Washington forgot to pack his tuxedo; Nixon had to borrow one from a newsman, got nice press notices about "the man who came to dinner without his dinner jacket...
...after day, the whole week through, month by month, the great stream of humanity is flowing in," reported the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce in 1921. "No human agency can stop it." In no mood to stop it, the chamber advertised the state's sunny joys at Midwestern county fairs to entice thousands more to join the 3,500,000 already in sunny California. But the wildest enthusiasts underguessed the migrations to come. The chamber has since quit trying to swell the stream, settled down to work on problems-roads, water shortages, etc. -to be multiplied by still more...
...added sharply, "Mexico must scrutinize any new private capital investment with care, supervising it closely. Foreign capital must be aware of and recognize its responsibilities and not merely provide a vehicle for the extraction of profits. The human factors involved-that is, whether the worker gets enough to eat and whether his malaria is cured-are the responsibilities of modern capitalism...
...customary in this situation, Father is just a headstrong bull in the china shop of human relations, and dear knows what a mess he would be in if he didn't have a capable woman and several ever-so-knowing children to pick up the pieces. At first, of course, there isn't any woman, but the children soon ignore their father into hiring a maid (Sophia Loren) who is just what the scriptwriter ordered. She wiggles around, sings peculiar popular songs ("Presto, presto, do your very best, oh"), boils an egg-obviously, to the children, a normal...
...Sunday stroll. But from his solitary eminence, Moviemaker Tati (Jour de Fête, Mr. Hulot's Holiday) takes a solemn view of the comic art and the contemporary scene. "Look what is happening to us," he glooms. "This specialization. Depersonalization is taking all the human meaning out of our daily life. A man used to be proud of the way he could drive. Now the car drives itself. A mother used to be proud of her cakes. Now they bake themselves. A boy used to be proud of [the playthings] he invented. Now he is buried under factory...