Word: mass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blacks, coloreds (mixed bloods) and Indians. He was one of the first advocates of apartheid (segregation ). When he took over as Prime Minister in 1954, succeeding Daniel F. Malan, a man of the same stamp, his administration rammed through laws that packed the Supreme Court and Senate, began the mass resettlement of natives into reserves. He was suspicious of all outsiders, and frequently warned travelers leaving for England to beware of "the fatal British aristocratic embrace." He went abroad only twice, once to attend a Commonwealth conference in London, and another time, when he whipped through England, Ireland, Scotland...
...punch. Half with a right and half with a shove, Harris put Champion Floyd Patterson, 23, on the canvas for a four-count in the second, the only round he won. But the expressionless champ did not even blink, came back to floor Harris four times, open up a mass of cuts that required 14 stitches to close. After twelve rounds the challenger was a bloody hulk, could go no farther. Referee Mushy Callahan took one look at the helpless Harris and stopped the slaughter. Patterson, virtually unmarked, was still champion...
...year-old Darlene got back into action, teamed with Jeanne Arth of St. Paul in an unseeded pairing and, volleying spectacularly, upset Wimbledon Champions Althea Gibson of New York and Maria Bueno of Brazil, 2-6, 6-3, 6-4 to win the U.S. Doubles championships at Brookline, Mass...
...beginning of the 19th centuries, and the visits of priests to the villages grew increasingly rare, a group of Catholic laymen called Penitentes gradually emerged. Its members conducted services, taught doctrine, visited the sick and buried the dead-in effect performing all the priestly functions except saying Mass and administering the sacraments...
...other centuries the cathedral was a proper symbol. "It was needed to dominate, even in the physical sense, by the employment of the mass and bulk and the arrogance of towers commanding the landscape-less to spy out the political enemy than to cow the underlings. The lacy frivolity of St. Patrick's cows nobody on [Manhattan's] Fifth Avenue today, and the view of it from atop Rockefeller Center suggests nothing so much as an outsized Victorian toy anchored in the heart of modern commerce...