Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mankind in its hundreds of millions, is on the march toward what goal and with what destruction on the way no man can foretell. Whole nations have sunk out of sight behind the Iron Curtain; whole peoples have disappeared from view...
...Much of mankind is changing its entire outlook upon the world. Whatever was is cast out-whatever is is questioned...
...last witness apparently had no such desire to cooperate. Columbia Anthropologist Gene (The Races of Mankind) Weltfish refused to say whether she was ever a Communist, and she emphatically denied that she had recently accused the U.S. of using germ warfare in Korea. All she had done, she said, was to call a press conference and hand out an affidavit made by the Rev. Dr. James Endicott, chairman of the Communist-front Canadian Peace Congress. What did the affidavit charge? That the U.S. was using germ warfare in Korea. Did she know Dr. Endicott personally? No, but she "believed...
Walter was hunched up in his windows seat. It was in Matthews, or else in Weld, I have forgotten which. Both Halls flank Grays. It was in the after-luncheon doldrum time of day, when mankind in its senses should be ossified and not prodded. Walter was tired out: "brain fag", the railroad men would call it. He was ripe to be keynoter at a convention on explosives. And all unconsciously, he was just that, for the convention sat in silence in a score of open windows...
...became ecstatic in his desire to "lift the Iron Curtain enough" to bring Czechoslovakia's fabulous triple gold medalist, Distance Runner Emil Zatopek, and his javelin champion wife, Ingrova, to the U.S. for a barnstorming tour. Said Sawyer: "It might be the beginning of a new program for mankind . . . the first step toward a permanent peace ... It appears difficult to work it out in the area of politics and armies. It might be easier to begin to work it out in the area of sport." Obviously nonsense...