Word: humanics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many of the 2,800 friends and neighbors Who filled Prince Albert's sturdy old red brick armory have known John Diefenbaker since he was a lanky prairie lawyer, using a shrewd judgment of human nature and an effective bag of courtroom theatrics to win difficult jury cases. When the welcoming speeches ended, Diefenbaker responded: "Our house will be in Ottawa, but our home will always be in Prince Albert...
...jade and hard stone and burying the carvings. To judge by their figurines, they bound their babies' heads to make them abnormally highbrowed. They probably worshiped a jaguar god, or at least they carved fierce stone images of beasts half man, half jaguar. They also carved monstrous human heads nine feet high with petulant baby faces. They floored their ceremonial rooms with clay tinted red with cinnabar, and they made concave mirrors of beautifully polished stone, perhaps for the purpose of starting fires by focusing the rays...
...House Banking Committee , last week. Federal Reserve Board Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr. described the problem of controlling the vigorous U.S. economy in terms that even a schoolboy could understand. The Federal Reserve Board, said Martin, is in the position of the ancient Danish King Canute, who demonstrated his human limitations by giving orders to the tides. Yet Martin made it clear that even if the U.S. economy is too strong for the Fed, some attempt must be made to control or at least temper its insatiable appetite for money. Said Martin: The Fed's tight-money policy will...
...pulled out many things: crumbling papers with writing in Tibetan and the rare Lan Cha type of the Indie alphabet, raw silk, strips of colored cloth, a chain of silver emblems, a bronze mirror, a faded silken bag made up in the shape of a human stomach containing a bewildering collection of pieces of metal, woods, seeds and beads...
...Spoken. Close to madness, Tamura begins to think about God and to feel that he is now beyond the human pale. And when he meets up with a former buddy who feeds him with dried human flesh, he has committed another act that revolts him and leads directly to madness. By this time he is sure that God has spoken to him, but he has long since lacked the strength of mind to solve either the spiritual or moral problems that assail his failing brain...