Word: mankinde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...half a dozen simple sentences, unrehearsed and devoid of speechwriters' polish, the President of the U.S. raised the conference from the legalese in which it was beginning to flounder, and seized the world's imagination with a rough-hewn plan to free mankind of the fear of surprise attack...
...here for a simple purpose," said the President. "We are not here merely to catalogue our differences. We are not here to repeat the same dreary exercises that have characterized most of our negotiations of the past ten years. We are here in response to the peaceful aspirations of mankind ... to inject a new spirit into our diplomacy...
...triumphant revolutionists proudly drew up a Declaration of Rights "for all men, for all lands, for all times, and to give an example to the world." From that day, in the flood tide of the Enlightenment, France took to itself the role of custodian of liberty and torchbearer to mankind...
...Malraux was concerned with man's greatness, not with the "masses," however oppressed. "I don't like mankind," said one of his characters gloomily. "I don't even like the poor for whom, after all, I am going to fight." As an idealist, he was from the first at odds with the professional Communists. When Trotsky complained that his individualistic heroes needed "a good dose of Marxism," Malraux bristled, retorted that he was not concerned with collective action, but with the tragic men caught up in the stress of revolution...
...Ours is the first civilization searching for man which does not understand itself. The first to inherit the whole world, the first whose past is not a particular path but the mysterious adventure of mankind. This is particularly emphasized by the U.S. ... In all history, the U.S. is the first country to become one of the masters of the world without having tried. But the most powerful civilization the world has ever known, that of the whole West, has been incapable of inventing either a temple or a tomb...