Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...General Matthew Ridgway . . . For in this twelvemonth, no man, by sheer force of character or professional skill, has more conspicuously served his country, and the hopes of all mankind, than our U.N. Commander in the Far East...
...three Western powers asked that discussion begin at once, made it clear that no final agreement could be reached until Communist aggression ceased in Korea. But, Truman insisted, "It can be done. And if it is done, think what a prospect would open up for the future of mankind . . . There would be greater freedom, greater production, greater enjoyment of the fruits of peaceful industry. Through the United Nations we could wage the only kind of war we seek-the war against want and human misery. In the lifetime of our own generation, we could bring about the greatest period...
Most ivory-tower plastic surgeons are concerned with correcting some of mankind's more serious deformities-not with making "cosmetic" repairs such as nose bobbing or face lifting. This attitude is too narrow and too stuffy, according to Dr. Adolph Abraham Apton of Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital: anything that makes a person feel uncomfortably conspicuous leads to mental upsets and ought to be corrected if possible. Dr. Apton's motto: "Plastic surgery is a surgical method of psychotherapy...
...their efforts to relieve the ills of mankind, awards were passed out last week to two medical researchers and a pest exterminator...
...polarized world scared Adams less than an atomized one. As early as 1862 he wrote: "Man has mounted science, and is now run away with . . . Some day science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide by blowing up the world." By 1901, he was saying: "After us the deluge-or even before!" In February of 1918, he was 80 years old and very tired of "a new society and a new world which is more wild and madder by far than the old one . . ." One month later, he left...