Word: humanize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even speaking at all. Moments like these make us painfully aware of the limitations of language, of our language. We realize that speech is a labor of love, an effort to obliterate the spaces and experiences that block our understanding of one another, render them irrelevant in some human communion. Paradoxically, these failings of language and speech connect us--our blighted attempts become a universal tie in the human experience...
Denial has long been my preferred route for dealing with my shattered illusions. When I first unpacked Blankie and put him on my pillow, my roommates thought they were living with a diseased human being. "What is it?" they asked. "A shower mat? A huge used hankerchief?" I told them it was my pride...
...addition to rent control and development, incumbent Wolf saw city finances as a serious problem to be addressed in the election. She said the federal government has left too many human services to the city, creating pressure for higher revenues...
Exxon issued a statement calling the boycott unjust, and added: "Exxon believes in the basic fairness of the American people and is confident that they will see Exxon's employees, dealers and owners as victims of human error, not as an institution that should be discriminated against for an accident that occurred while we were doing...
...leftist guerrillas for the assassination. Charging that the attack was designed to destabilize his rightist government, which takes power on June 1, Cristiani said the F.M.L.N. rebels were "trying to provoke a vengeful response, but they won't get it." Within a day, however, the military arrested dozens of human-rights and union activists, claiming that they belonged to groups affiliated with the F.M.L.N...