Word: mankinde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Recessional. As 400 million Indians (one-fifth of mankind) became self-governing, the British recessional was well begun. From lonely outposts in Kashmir, looking nervously north to the Russian border, from lush Assam where tea bushes grow in the spectral sau trees' shade, from residences deep in central India's jungles, from gay and airy Bangalore, more than 60,000 Britons had served notice that they were leaving the land which had been Britain's treasure and shame, her pride and her increasing care...
...Mankind's teeth are not in very good condition. This was the considered judgment of some 15,000 dentists from 54 nations who met in Boston last week for the first time since...
Last week the stars, the sun, the moon behaved according to law. On Earth's surface, which, from a few miles up, might have seemed uninhabited, mankind's performances continued to unroll. Here & there, as usual, bits of the action and dialogue were recorded by journalists who were, as usual, uneasily aware that their jottings were inadequate...
Americans were still sure that it is better to win a war than lose it. They were sure that, if it came to war again, they would win again. But Americans, like all the rest of mankind, had also begun to suspect that if war's weapons grew much more powerful, victory and defeat might be equated. What would the victor do in a blasted or half-blasted world...
...hope of international accord. In the U.N., U.S. Atomic Representative Frederick Osborn would continue to press the U.S. plan for international atomic control. But as long as Russia continued to block that plan, it was David Lilienthal's job to build the most destructive atomic weapon known to mankind...