Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...named "transparent candor, energy, and a liking for mankind," as the three most important attributes of a young man "marked for success...
...unfounded and wicked criticism. You are the objects of deep distrust. It is the wide belief of the American people that other men should have known better than you and spared us our troubles. What is going on in our midst has been going on through the course of mankind. It was especially true of the Middle Ages. There were murders and backstairs accusations then as now . . . There are some who believe that this will change with the new Administration. I say to you that it will not. When something really wicked has been turned loose in the world...
...view, the human molecules have one fundamental property that dominates all others: they tend to increase their numbers up to the absolute limit of their food supply. This is the familiar thesis of Thomas Malthus, a senior contemporary of Grandfather Darwin whose gloomy predictions of starvation have haunted mankind for 150 years...
...Bauer's cortege rolled into the square in front of West Berlin City Hall; massed bands played the Funeral March from Beethoven's Eroica; Mayor Ernst Reuter delivered the oration: "Never do we want to fall victim to the system to which Herbert Bauer fell victim ... If mankind can't help us, we will lift up our hands and cry 'Oh Lord, make us free.' " When it was all over, Patrolman Herbert Bauer was laid to rest in Tegel cemetery, as a martyr of the Cold...
...give and to serve for the good of mankind...