Word: humanize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Principato charges that every day for the past year his supervisor, Carol Wotschak, chief medical technologist at UHS, has put his mail into a specimen box containing human excrement. Wotschak declined to discuss the case...
...told of the new fighting. "I am saddened to report," said the President, "that it appears that in a proper defensive action by the U.S.S. Vincennes this morning in the Persian Gulf, an Iranian airliner was shot down over the Strait of Hormuz. This is a terrible human tragedy. Our sympathy and condolences go out to the passengers, crew and their families." At 1:30 p.m. a tense and obviously tired Admiral William Crowe, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, strode into the Pentagon briefing room to deliver the shocking details to the waiting reporters. He explained that...
...only the sixth A320 to come off the assembly line at the Airbus Industrie consortium's plant in Toulouse. But the questions arising from the accident apply to the entire aircraft industry, for the planes of the future will be increasingly controlled by computer software instead of human reflexes and judgment...
...closing address, Gorbachev pronounced the four-day meeting a success and hailed glasnost as "one of the heroes of our conference." He also promised to "bring about a qualitatively new condition in our society and give a human face to socialism" -- the exact phrase used 20 years ago by Czechoslovak Reformer Alexander Dubcek. As Gorbachev joined the delegates in singing verses of the Internationale, he took off his glasses. A pensive, almost weary expression crept across his face, the look of a man who has put one more victory behind him but still has many more battles to face...
...seemingly calculated to rouse the audience from their seats directly into a protest rally. The framing story is the trial of a brutal, ignorant police chief in rural Texas for the killing of a young Chicano suspected of burglary. Morton's other plays mingle reality and daffy fantasy, human characters and cartoonish stereotypes in order to teach -- or preach -- the Hispanic history of the Americas. Says he: "I've seen the glaring difference between the First World and the Third World, and it weighs heavy on my soul...