Word: humanize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Michael S. Dukakis has been criticized by his opponents as leaning too far to the left because he supports the ACLU. Lewis said he was disturbed because "one candidate [Vice President George Bush] is casting aspersions on human rights in this country...
...organization, Physicians for Human Rights, deplored the extreme physical violence Palestinians have suffered, in a report they published earlier this year. In it, they conclude: "Indeed the word 'beating' does not properly convey the literal pounding and mauling with clubs and other weapons required to produce the injuries...
James Watson, co- discoverer of the DNA double helix, is named to head a new federal project: mapping the human genome...
Tuchman's view of history is gravely classical. She is a tragedian who mounts the past against the fixed backdrop of human nature. Reason and goodwill exist but are like the stars in the heavens: flashes of enlightenment separated by vast expanses of darkness. "Halfway 'between truth and endless error,' " she concludes, "the mold of the species is permanent...
...little nicer, a little faster, Lewis finished the first of his four encores, the 100-meter dash, in his best time ever -- but second to the Canadian who dusts the world. "I've been working twelve years for this moment," said Johnson, the fastest human by a considerable whoosh. "I sailed right through." The Games found an early kind of king in the Jamaican-born sprinter who churns insides in every country. And he was not the only excitement...