Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Congratulations on "Seven Wonders of the U.S." in the Oct. 31 News in Pictures. They are really more than wonders, they are working wonders and portray the implementation of science through engineering for the service of mankind...
...that we convene this meeting at our Pacific proving ground at the island of Eniwetok, and there detonate a large thermonuclear weapon before an audience of all the peoples of the world. History has seen many dramatic events. This one might outrank them all, because the earthly destinies of mankind are bound up with the whole meaning of the event . . . Man now has the power to put an end to his own history...
...physicists, generals and plain men, approaching the new weapons from different angles and at different levels of technical knowledge, all came to conclusions quite similar to Murray's own: that these weapons represent a danger of unprecedented magnitude to the survival of mankind -and that until an effective system of international control is established it would be folly to open the U.S. to thermonuclear attack by not being better armed in this respect than the Communists...
...Translation: "The history of almost all the great councils and consultations held among mankind for reconciling their discordant opinions, assuaging their mutual jealousies and adjusting their respective interests, is a history of factions, contentions and disappointments, and may be classed among the most dark and degraded pictures which display the infirmities and depravities of the human character...
...first effect of Communism's claim to liberate mankind and introduce a higher morality is to convert its most devoted adherents into a dark, anonymous army committed as a duty to crime, duplicity and terror. The main spy organization is the GB (Gosudarstvennaya Bezopasnost -State Security), whose list of names reads like alphabet soup, e.g., GPU, NKVD, MGB, since it began life as the CHEKA in 1917. Furthermore, allied and sometimes competing with the GB are the spy apparats of the Red army, the Ministry of Trade and the Communist Party itself. Their strength lies in two things...