Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will be our good fortune to have at last a master as intelligent, as cultivated and as clement as Caesar . . . The real Caesar was known only to Caesar, but it is the mark of the very greatest men that they reflect the endless perplexities and the eternal problems of mankind...
...coinmaker is one of mankind's oldest. To the coiner and his fellow craftsman, the medalist, has gone the job of commemorating history's great events and famous men. The result, when an artist like Benvenuto Cellini went to work, was often a miniature masterpiece. In Madrid last week the Spanish government staged a sweeping show of 2,000 years of coin and medal-making and, with exhibits from 42 countries, took stock of the modern medalist...
...divide the big estates. He is driven to the hills as an outlaw, finally cornered and killed. Nino looks on helplessly, convinced that his friend is a victim of injustice, but realizing, too, that he was not the man to lead the peasants: "You could not carry justice to mankind with hands that were befouled with so much blood...
...year-old Phil Murray, recovered from an almost fatal illness, agreed to carry on as C.I.O. president. He was unanimously re-elected for his twelfth term. Nominating Murray, bearded Jacob S. Potofsky, president of the Clothing Workers, called him "not only a labor leader but a leader of mankind." To take some of the load off Murray, Organization Director Allan Haywood was named to the new position of executive vice president...
...their best for their country and their neighbors and longing to build their homes and bring up their children in peace, freedom and the hope of better times. That is all they ask of their rulers. That is the dear wish in the hearts of all the peoples of mankind. How easy it ought to be, with modern science standing on tiptoe ready to open the doors of a golden age, to grant them this humble, modest desire...