Word: human
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Seidman were unaware of these charges, or if she knew of them but failed to ask Burchett about them, she was remiss as a newspaperwoman. If she thought them not important enough to ask about, she was remiss as a decent human being. If she did ask, but spared us what Burchett told her, then she was not being truthful with her readers...
...stumper, and having no response ready, I introduce myself to the stairway. For a moment the steps sit undisturbed but soon a small dark blob detaches itself from the effulgence above and comes waddling down the stairs towards me. The blob quickly congeals into a very interesting looking human being. He is a fairly small man, no more than a few inches over 5 feet tall, with an enormous belly which billows out in front of him like a racing spinnaker pulling him off-balance onto his toes. He moves toward me. He is quite solidly built, despite being over...
...hour. The problem intrigues him so much, in fact, that he seems to lose all concern for me per se. He stumps down the stairs and walks right by me into the dining room ruminating with great enthusiasm on the evidence that it is possible to be born human without any brains at all. Having nothing better to do, I start up the stairs...
Several months ago, President Carter indicated that human rights would finally become an important criterion in American foreign policy, yet the United States has made no move to dissociate itself from the inhuman Marcos regime in the Philippines. If the Carter administration is serious about human rights in other nations, it should reconsider its position with regard to the Philippines...
...becomes easy to think that immediately after the events of June 17, 1972, Nixon should have said "O.K., let's get the truth out, everybody walk the plank." "There wouldn't have been much damage," Price says, "even if John Mitchell were involved. On the other hand, in human terms, I doubt if he could have done that." Price adds that he feels certain that Nixon would have won re-election, even if he had immediately made everyone walk the plank...