Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...DETROIT'S CHAMBER or COMMERCE MUST GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS THE FIRST INSTRUMENT PRODUCED IN THE HISTORY OF MANKIND TO REALISTICALLY SOLVE WORLD PROBLEMS AMONG NATIONS. COMPETITION IS THE LIFE OF TRADE ; MADE FREE BY TODAY'S WORLD LEADERS, IT WILL MAKE THE U.S. GREATER AND PROVIDE ALL OTHER FREE NATIONS HOPE THAT THEY TOO MAY BECOME GREAT BY THEIR OWN ENTERPRISE OWING CHARITY TO NONE...
...same year that Marx & Engels published their Communist Manifesto (1848), a group of women met in Seneca Falls, N.Y., pondered their discontents, and issued a manifesto of their own. "The history of mankind," it said, "is a history of repeated injuries . . . toward woman." The downtrodden of Seneca Falls resolved to turn woman's wrongs into Woman's Rights. Moreover, the same sort of female revolt was getting under way all over Christendom...
...without religion. "And if freedom is suppressed on the material plane, it will break out on the spiritual plane . . . The 19th century movement in the Western world which replaced religion by technology as the center of interest will be reversed in the 21st century by a countermovement in which mankind will turn back from technology to religion...
...captured. Said the President, eying the little man solemnly: "Mr. Prime Minister of Australia, do I understand your attitude aright? If I do, it is this: that the opinion of the whole civilized world is to be set at naught. This conference, fraught with such infinite consequences to mankind for good and evil, is to break up, with results that might be disastrous to the future happiness of 1,800 million of the human race, in order to satisfy the whim of 5,000,000 people in the remote southern continent you claim to represent." Replied Billy, brightly: "Yes. Very...
...though the streets of Sironia must be paved with female teeth. Crowbars are swung in labor strife, horsewhips in political campaigns. Sex-crazed old women corner fresh-faced youths in locked bedrooms. Blackmail is a commonplace, miscegenation comes almost as natural as breathing, and the highest ambition of mankind, it would seem, is to own a real, live, spangly N'awlins "hoah...