Word: humanation
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...lamps had burned all night. Now the light came in from the east, bringing a deep stillness, a stillness so profound and so pervasive that it seemed as if the earth itself were listening. And then there came a sharp, compelling cry-the most awesome, happiest sound known to human ears-the cry of a newborn baby. The first child...
Whatever other leaders might do. Lyndon Johnson was already manning the pumps-the political pumps, that is. "I do not take any obscene delight in playing politics with human misery," he said. "I think that is what people do when they procrastinate or send up smoke screens. I have responsibilities as the majority leader of the Senate of the United States ... I plan not only to live up to my responsibilities, but to discharge them as effectively as I can." Three hours later he was back to offer his resolutions on military construction and public works. "I'd like...
...manufacturer of plumbing fixtures, and Sheboygan's No. i employer. That strike is still dragging on, with no end in sight. It is already one of the longest strikes in U.S. history, and it is probably the costliest, whether measured in dollars or human misery...
...which Europe suffers." To Schlechta and his colleagues, the new Nietzsche is the seer whose volcanic revulsion against what James Gibbons Huneker once called the Seven Deadly Virtues furnished existentialists of modern France and Germany with much of their original inspiration, and whose evocations of the darker side of human consciousness lighted the way to some of the first insights of Freud and psychoanalysis...
...generally (but not exclusively) that gave the recession the biggest play. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Louisville Courier-Journal and Chattanooga Times were quick to tell readers how the slump was affecting community and family life, personal budgets, taxes, jobs. Marshall Field's Chicago Sim-Times ran a human-interest series on the steel-mill layoffs at Gary, Ind. (and in a story on employment agencies last week unearthed the fact that first-rate secretaries are still hard to find...