Word: humanizes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...criticize his failure to think and act in terms of the church or to generate ideas that would help to counteract modern irreligion and immorality. Others find his ideas of sin too grandiose, too remote from the common tares of mankind. Some feel that he could do with more human warmth and less intellectual incandescence...
...dirt coughing blood, unable to move, and shouts of "a hundred to ten" against his chances floated through the pit. His enemy, the red, picked and kicked at him. Then, with the kind of blind tenacity that seems to excel a human's, the grey came back. Almost 40 minutes later, he won over the red. Next morning, another of Kehoe's grey muffs came back from the dead to clinch first prize ($7,000) of the Orlando tournament for Kehoe. Glowed rough, tough old John Kehoe: "Cockfighting has added ten years to my life...
...have been dehydrated (the amount of water in their bodies reduced) survived longer than other rats .when exposed to radiation; animals whose metabolism was slowed down before exposure also did better. Thousands of lives could be saved, Colonel Decoursey said hopefully (while the other doctors looked politely skeptical), if human resistance to radiation could be increased only...
...speculators were indeed "We the People." The world's biggest securities and commodities brokerage house thought it had enough information in its files (150,000 customers) to correct the Truman Administration's impression that commodity speculators were a small bunch of cold-eyed moneybags profiting on human misery...
...sinecure, which gave him both a living and free time. But the years of loneliness and doubt had left a scar on Robinson's mind: failure remained his basic theme. Readers of this book may realize some of the suffering, the agony and the terrible consumption of human resources that go to make a poet in America...