Word: humanizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time has come to walk out of the shadow of states' rights and into the sunlight of human rights," yelled Hubert Humphrey...
...Psychologically, the British stiff upper lip is as imperturbable as ever; mathematically, their plans don't yet add up. But their problem is less a mathematical equation than it is a human one. Sir Stafford Cripps, who I had always supposed was an archangel of austerity, turned out to be a warm, genial, thoroughly pleasant personality, with plenty of humor - and goodness knows, Britain's terrific problems will have to be solved in human terms, not just mathematical ones...
...magnificent weasel. The Northern bloc, which believed that Congress' power to legislate "human rights" is limitless, could accept it-if it wanted to. So could Southern politicians who firmly believe that certain Negro rights are matters which the Constitution leaves to the states...
...allowed beyond Kaiyuan, they must be sold for whatever price the racketeering army men may offer. Communist currency is confiscated. The wheaten cakes are broken by inspectors looking for concealed opium. Then the authorities hustle the travelers on to rugged refugee trains-a sort of slow-moving human cattle car jampacked with unwashed, heartsick bodies...
Hughes is moderately deaf but disdains a hearing aid. He hears well on the telephone, which is, by long odds, his favorite channel of communication with other human beings. Since he sleeps only when he is sleepy, he calls up his lieutenants at all hours of the night. Sometimes he identifies himself as "Mr. Hoyt." He has had a number of other aliases, including one for the Town House in Los Angeles, one for the tailors from whom he never buys any clothes, and one which he used, years ago, when he got a job as co-pilot with American...