Word: humanics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...action, such as abolishing the public school system. State Senator C. E. Yingling probably summed up the majority opinion when he said, "This would be the worst possible time to call a special session," and added that "this is the time to sit down, cool off, and act like human beings...
...Tsotsis. Life is hard for these enforced suburbanites. They must ride to work each day on crowded, filthy "native trains" whose hard plank seats are always jammed with sweating Africans, standing, squatting, sitting on laps or even riding the couplings between the decrepit cars. In these crowded human cattle cars, violence is quick to flare. Flashily dressed native gangsters, known as Tsotsis, wait to pounce upon the unwary worker, particularly on paydays, relieving him of his wallet and sometimes pushing him clean off the train if he resists. Even in the darkness of the stations and the roads near...
...Quaccerique hole is thronged by picnickers and swimmers-mainly because there is nothing better near Tegucigalpa-Hondurans may well have to call on Willauer again. "It isn't exactly in the line of ambassadorial duties," said he last week, "but it is my duty as a human being...
...sequels led to a radio program, and then to the TV show. Without film training or TV experience, Murrow and Friendly together worked out the See It Now technique for getting at the heart of current issues and problems by narrowing their focus on "the little picture"-the human beings intimately involved...
...novel Miss Lonelyhearts is the fierce portrait of a young man who laughingly undertakes a lonelyhearts column to provide human interest for the Chronicle. His cynical facade is cracked, and finally broken away by letters from starving mothers, sick breadwinners, and unwed pregnants; with love and reason for life lost, his mind founders, and he drives for death...