Word: humanize
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...another tabloid week for the Olympic movement. At the track-and-field trials in Sacramento, Calif., sprinters Michael Johnson and Maurice Green moved their gums as fast as their legs, trading insults at a record pace. On the human-interest front, there was Marla Runyan, legally blind, qualifying for the team at 1,500 m, and Gabe Harmony Jennings, a happy eccentric from Forks of Salmon, Calif., announcing himself as a miler to be reckoned with. Finally there was Magnificent Marion Jones qualifying for what seemed to be every event...
Imagine, for a moment, that you?re China. After a decade-long public relations campaign to expunge the ghosts of human rights abuses, you?ve finally realized a moment of truth: The United States Senate is poised to reconsider your trade status, a decision that could open the door to invaluable exchange with the West. Now, teetering on the brink of international acceptance, what?s the worst possible move you could make...
...abolition of clotted cream b) therapeutic human cloning c) salt-free kippers d) semiannual flossing...
...merely creativity. What Louis wrought was a revolution. Before Armstrong, popular singers inhaled deeply, puffed out their chests and projected. After him, most have tried to do what he did so magnificently: find elation or sadness or humor in the song and let it issue forth as a purely human statement. Dizzy Gillespie, speaking of Armstrong's role in the development of jazz trumpet, said, "No him, no me." They're words that could be spoken just as appropriately by singers as disparate as Tony Bennett and Mick Jagger...
...from Hope, prefers to look at how far Nigeria has come instead of how far it has yet to go. "Now at last you have your country back,'' Clinton told the nation, noting that Nigerians are electing their own leaders, tackling corruption, freeing the press and shedding light on human rights violations. "You have beaten such long odds to get this far," he said. "I am certain America will walk with you in the years to come...