Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...protector of small nations," and the U.N. was "able to bring about a cease-fire and withdrawal of hostile forces from Egypt because it was dealing with governments and peoples [i.e., the British, French and Israelis] who had a decent respect for the opinions of mankind." But not so the Soviets, who had ignored the U.N.'s repeated resolutions for withdrawal of Soviet troops from Hungary. "Therefore," said the President, "the U.N. can always be helpful, but it cannot be a wholly dependable protector of freedom when the ambitions of the Soviet Union are involved...
...summon up the past glories of one of mankind's most golden ages, the most important exhibit of T'ang Dynasty art treasures ever to be seen outside of China opened this week at the Los Angeles County Museum. To assemble the 385 irreplaceable art objects, ranging all the way from Buddhist sculpture to fragments of 1,200-year-old silk, the Los Angeles museum tapped the resources of more than 88 museums, dealers and collectors here and abroad, including the famed oriental collection of Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum of Archaeology (see color pages). The total...
...Roman poet's many farewells to his tartish Lesbia. The final poem of the book, History, combines his sense of the past with the immediacy of the present, his feeling for place with his reverence for God. And the concluding lines, though aimed at all mankind, could serve to describe the poet himself...
...77th birthday (Dec. 21) of the onetime "supreme genius of all mankind," unmourned Joseph Stalin, went unobserved in the U.S.S.R. Not a single official speech, parade or party...
...virtually every economic measure, 1956 was the greatest year in history. Yet many Americans hardly seemed to notice the amazing performance of the mightiest economy mankind had ever known. Just as the nation was once resigned to a depression psychology, the U.S. was now in the heady grip of a prosperity psychology. The great American boom was almost a standard part of U.S. life, no more surprising than the automakers' ads plugging the "two-car family''-a status more and more Americans achieved...