Word: humanizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back from a desperate search for a human-interest story, a Minor sport-writer wrote: "Ed Barrow, the Babe's rough, tough baseball father, pulled up the shade on the years to let the sunshine of the Bambino's rollicking history pour through the room of his tree-shrouded Rye home as he abstractedly nodded: 'Babe Ruth was just a human citizen-a human American citizen.'" Westbrook Pegler, putting his worst (kickless) foot forward, told how Ruth, "a burly oaf [who] could suck half a pound of tobacco and spit through his ears," had autographed...
Maxwell House has resorted to a human stooge who tries, unsuccessfully, to balance six bags (the product's publicized blends) on his palm. When he fails, he is handed a can of Maxwell House with the triumphant assurance that all the blends are perfectly balanced...
...television commercials is the disembodied hands whose busy work is described by disembodied voices. These ghostly hands are likely to snap. Ronson lighters on & off, or to whip up a foamy lather of Ivory Snow. Some advertisers just skip the hands and let the product operate mysteriously without visible human help...
...efforts peaceful and fruitful. On the other hand are those who accept the moral premises necessary for the organization of peace but who have allowed their practices to seem routine, materialistic and spiritually unfertile. That division will gradually become less sharp if those who believe in moral law and human dignity will make it apparent by their works that their political practices are in fact being made to serve their faith...
From a tribe of cannibals whom he saw eating human flesh, Pretorius courteously asked and got the recipe: soak the body in hot water, scrape off the skin, stuff with plantains, cover with leaves and roast over night in a bed of coals. The lucky hunter who had made the kill "was entitled to the fingers and toes, which he cut off and ate raw." Pretorius once gave a tribe of pygmies a goat; they set to it by slicing tidbits from the live animal...