Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...without mail, telephones or even money-committed a form of genocide unknown to mankind since the Holocaust. Yet, one cannot look at the condition of these people today without a sense of anguish. A starving baby minutes away from death has no responsibility or knowledge of Cambodian politics. What human cruelties and failings, one wonders, have reduced tens of thousands of people to the state of dumb, brute animals...
...caused chiefly by inadequate training of the plant's operators and poor supervision by the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The report criticized the industry and its regulators for being too concerned "with the safety of equipment, resulting in the down-playing of the importance of the human element...
...Missouri said he and his colleagues had visited camps in Thailand that were simply "ground with people strewn over it." Danforth argued that "hundreds of thousands of people [are] at death's door. We saw people who couldn't walk 100 yards." Said Democrat James Sasser of Tennessee: "The human suffering we found was so deep and pervasive that I don't have the words to adequately describe...
...weeks by a Vietnamese offensive in the border areas. Though far better fed than the other refugees, toughened to hardship and accustomed to living by their wits in the jungle, the Khmer Rouge and their entourage had clearly reached the limit of their endurance. They did not look like human beings in the accepted sense of the term but rather like wild animals, completely brutalized. They slept huddled side by side like beasts in a cage. They seldom spoke and kept their eyes cast downward. They seemed so pathetic that it was almost possible to forget the abominable cruelties they...
...sunken continent," to which Updike appeals to show the unity between human individual islands is a tired thematic device. The frogman and the Cub Scout mother have very little to say to each other...