Word: humanation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Proclaiming United Nations Human Rights Day, President Eisenhower called upon the nation to "take to heart the lessons the Hungarian people have written in their blood ... in their indomitable will to be free." This came on the heels of his order establishing "Operation Safe Haven," a plan to bring the announced quota of 21,500 Hungarians (TIME, Dec. 10) to the U.S. by Jan. 1. Set into motion by the Defense Department, Safe Haven will carry 5,000 people aboard three oceangoing transports, about 10,000 aboard MATS and commercial planes. U.S. Labor Department officials aboard the three ships will...
...confession and commanded him to sign. "I did what they asked, and I remember clearly that I put the two letters, C.F., after my name. My torturers were surprised at this, and asked me what the letters C.F.' meant. Despite my dazed state, the defense mechanism of the human body worked, and even smiling at them, I answered: 'It means a cardinal without office.' " It took his captors some time to find out that C.F. stood for the Latin coactus feci ("I have been forced to act") -a symbol used by many Christians to sign extorted confessions...
...progressed through A.A.'s twelve self-improvement steps (sample: "[We] admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs") and became an enthusiastic convert, Ann found her life was losing what meaning it had held before. Playing nursemaid to a drunk had been a fulltime responsibility, the focus of her existence, but Ed's new purpose all but left her out in the cold. Where once Ed had been out drinking with his cronies, now he was sitting up nights with new cronies, helping to keep them from drinking...
...hopeful about human efforts to change the weather. He admits that cloud seeding with dry ice or silver iodide particles can coax rain out of a susceptible cloud, but he is not convinced that it can be done often enough to be valuable. Rossby believes that better long-range forecasting would probably be more valuable than attainable extra rain. A long-range forecast of a disastrous drought (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), such as the one that is affecting much of the U.S. at present, could prevent much suffering...
...duty was religious, his loyalty unquestionable, his integrity never impugned. And he was funny, as this book reveals, not in the broad sense in which "Allen's Alley" made him famous, but in his love of people--examined, analyzed, and stitched back together again for the sake of human kindness...