Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...human body creates cancer, and in its mysterious way the body sometimes kills cancer by itself. This phenomenon is so rare that the odds are 99,999 to one. Since 1900 there have been only 120 proven cases in the world. The fact that it does happen gives hope to researchers and new life to a few extraordinarily fortunate cancer victims. For news of one, see MEDICINE, Vanishing Cancer...
...Russians nor Americans consider the system infallible. In 20 to 100 cases a year, natural earthquakes might be mistaken for deep underground tests. So they recommended that the international organization running the control system be permitted to go immediately to any suspected area and look for evidence of testing. Human ingenuity might find some way to fool this inspection too. but the experts decided that the risk of exposure would be extremely high...
...other hand, things are vastly improved in many ways. Most important in human terms is that people are no longer scared to death. Second, they are getting enough to eat. Not that you would have any fun with the meals eaten by even upper-class Russians. But they have plenty of healthy food-bread, meat, vegetables, even fruits and delicacies at prices which people can afford. People are much better dressed. I saw not a single pair of the crude bast sandals, visible everywhere 20 years ago. The clothes chiefly lack elegance and charm, but in most cases they...
...grave through the lurid landscape of war and revolution. An utterly credible and pitiable man. he is seen first as a student whose gift for happiness makes him feel lost among the fanatical miseries of Russian revolutionary youth. All are anarchists, nihilists. pro-Bolsheviks: young Zhivago is merely human, and he remains stubbornly human as he moves through marriage, friendships, his career as a physician, front-line service in World War I. In the vast plains of Russia, he seeks to shelter his family from the horrors of civil war-but he seems disastrously unable to help those who love...
Nobody Saw. Planes flew high overhead or off to the side of the square miles of human flotsam, but nobody was looking for Indy survivors, and for 84 hours nobody saw them. When they were spotted, it was by accident. Then rescue measures were swift and effective-the one aspect of the disaster that was a credit to the Navy. But only 316 (15 officers, 301 enlisted men, from a total complement of 1,196) survived...