Word: humanize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...noon, about 500 people gathered at Boston City Hall to protest the Turkish government's human rights violations against Armenians. And at Harvard last night a lecturer on Armenian art described what she said were the Ankara government's current efforts to eliminate all traces of Armenian culture in Turkey...
According to Thomas J. Samuelian, a first-year Harvard law student and rally participant, Flynn told the crowd that Boston was the perfect place for such a rally because the struggle for American human rights began in the city. He added that Armenians are now engaged in a similar struggle...
When officers entered the darkness of the 15-by-25-ft. shack, they found a squat iron kettle whose contents suggested that more than just a band of ruthless killers had been at work. Inside the pot, resting in dried blood, were a charred human brain and a roasted turtle. Other containers held a witch's brew of human hair, a goat's head and chicken parts. After arresting and questioning four suspects, the Mexican police pieced together a horrific tale of a voodoo-practicing cult of drug smugglers who believed that orgies of human sacrifice would win satanic protection...
...mount a tactical defense detailing dates, times, dollars, his service to the House for 34 years. These are the tidy rituals of comradeship and parliamentary procedure that are so dear and so binding to those denizens of the Capitol. Wright is correct that the media convulsion about human rectitude or the lack of it is unrealistic, often unfair and to some degree perversely inspired by Republicans and other enemies. He is no doubt sincere in his belief that what he did was not knowingly wrong, certainly not evil...
...doling out special favors to get wealthy. Meese was seen to be too hurried, a bad judge of people, unaware of the court of public opinion that calls for elevated ethical standards. He was blind to the special symbolism of an Attorney General. It was a list of acceptable human weaknesses for other public jobs...