Word: humanizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exhausted refugees this is a final test of stamina. Those who somehow have managed to save a few dollars from the bandits and the inspectors may hire coolie bearers to carry them across. These local peasants have developed an incredible technique. With straw ropes they lash their human burdens on their backs. They cry, "Please close your eyes and don't be scared. We've done this many times before." Then they pick a nimble passage over the broken bridge, while their passengers look down in terror and vertigo at the swirling waters far below. Safe...
Glories of Night. The professor loves the night. "The human mind at such a moment may reflect," he says, "that all the glories of night are a consequence of a trifle of shadow that lies back of the earth, the sun banging through its great system, only here and there blocked by a tiny opaque ball that casts its tiny shadow. Because of that shadow-all the night music, the night poetry, the dark thoughts, the neon signs, the silent seductions, the bats, the thieveries, the large frights, the small frights, the mere worries, the walking of floors careful that...
...obedience." The second, written on Good Friday, 1944, was another message of sympathy that included a prayer for peace and that "the whole fellowship of Christ's disciples may be so guided by the Holy Spirit that we may together declare the Christian principles for the ordering of human life...
...official and effective cooperation between Roman and non-Roman Christians in all matters that did not involve dogmatic principles and historical conflicts which divide Christendom. The way being opened, he felt immediate steps might be taken for such cooperation in defining and proclaiming principles for the ordering of human life which Christ revealed as the Divine Will...
Politicians and reporters, who rarely agree, found themselves united at last week's Democratic Convention on one proposition: photographers can be a hell of a nuisance. At the few exciting moments, a human wall of cameramen lined the edge of the speakers' platform. Some reporters in the press section were cut off from a view of the delegates on the floor, while the endless flashbulbs and shrill, insistent cries for "one more!" distracted the speakers...