Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great religions, whatever their differences, acknowledge a belief in God as the father and creator of mankind. For us, therefore, brotherhood is not only a generous impulse but also a divine command. Others may be moved to brotherhood only by sentiment. We acknowledge brotherhood as a religious duty...
...kind of hopscotch over chalked squares identified as "radioactive" or "contaminated." At the Hanford Plutonium Works in Richland, Wash., he seeks out the red-staked " 'burial grounds' in which radioactive refuse is interred," adding quite correctly that such cemeteries will be an ever-growing hazard to mankind through succeeding generations. He stops at Ellenton, S.C. to shed a tear over the disappearance of the tumbledown little town, which is being removed to make way for the Atomic Energy Commission's Savannah River Project...
...runs out on a marriage with a gentle Sikh nationalist, because "it was awful, trying to be an Indian," and there would be nothing to talk about except "politics and strikes and the future of mankind...
...McCarthyism. When McCarthy does an effective job of cleaning out the "cobwebs and spiders" left in the cellarway by the previous Administration, Flanders said, that is praiseworthy. "But let him not so work as to conceal mortal danger in which our country finds itself from the external enemies of mankind...
Russia, he said, wants a truce in the cold war. "It is not true that mankind has to face only the choice between fresh world slaughter or the cold war . . . The Soviet government stands for further reduction of international tension." Malenkov gave no hint of what the Soviet government might do to help reduce world tension, insisting that the deeds must come from the "aggressive circles in the West that are still hopelessly dreaming of destroying our socialist society." As a first step, he added, Western Europe should abandon EDC, "by which, under the guise of a little Europe, there...