Word: mankind
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...considers more effective than a 50-megatoner). But, said John Kennedy, such a bomb would presently be "primarily a mass killer of people in war" rather than a nuclear weapon of any real military use. "Fear is the oldest weapon in history," said Kennedy. "Throughout the life of mankind, it has been the resort of those who could not hope to prevail by reason and persuasion. It will be repelled today, as it has been repelled in the past-not only by the steadfastness of free men but by the power of the arms which men will use to defend...
...justification for the right of the military to speak its mind, Walker quoted a statement by George Washington: "If Men are to be precluded from offering their Sentiments on a matter, which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences, that can invite the consideration of Mankind, reason is of no use to us; the freedom of Speech may be taken away, and, dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep, to the Slaughter." In fact, Washington was exhorting his ragged men not to mutiny against the Government in disgust because they had not been paid...
...U.S.S.R. for possessing nuclear arms, stormed out of an hour-long protest meeting with Russian embassy officials. He explained he could take its tea and caviar but could no longer "swallow comments, about the innocence of the Soviet Union; never had there been such innocence in the history of mankind...
...evening rush begins. The German, pressed too hard, grabs a cleaver, runs amok, chops the main gas line. The kitchen, the social order, the whole vast conspiracy of unmeaning that, as Playwright Wesker sees it, prisons and demeans mankind, is interrupted, annulled. The owner stands stupefied. "You stopped my world," he mumbles. "Did you have permission from God? You work...
...lesson is that explorers seldom find the expected. An eloquent case for aerospace is made by top Avco Corp. Researcher Dr. Arthur Kantrowitz: "To characterize aerospace as a growth industry is to take a narrow view. It is more like the discovery of America-a new opportunity for mankind. I keep telling my children that I wouldn't be surprised if their children lived in some brave new world in space, just as we came to America from the old countries. It might be another opportunity to start all over. You've got to do that periodically...