Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Many European and Japanese leaders criticize American timidity over atomic power. They hold the U.S. responsible for slowing international research and development on the reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel and new technology for breeder reactors. Says former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt: "Nobody should pretend that mankind can return to nuclear innocence...
...gluttonous, shrewd and tough, Believing that evil is an outside job, not part of mankind's nature, he has no compunctions about literally beating the Devil out of people. He bashes a madman with a crucifix, throws "holy" ammonia water in the eyes of an attacker, and makes Hitler abhorrent to a Nazi official through a crude but effective method of behavior modification known as the third degree...
...Albus, head of the robotics research laboratory at the National Bureau of Standards in Gaithersburg, Md., "is now poised on the brink of a new industrial revolution that will at least equal, if not far exceed, the first Industrial Revolution in its impact on mankind...
...chew, swear, swill redeye or hang around dance halls, and they don't go with girls who do. Horseplay and gunplay are surprisingly infrequent. The Sacketts are courtly coffee drinkers who never draw first and fight only when their bedrock belief in the perfectability of mankind has been violated. They hardly rate...
Bloch agreed that past events had already damaged many of the region's art treasures. In 1944, the American army "started their invasion of Italy in Salerno," Bloch said, adding that "mankind has done more to destroy irreplaceable art than any natural disaster...