Word: masses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second such killing in five months at Boonville and it stung indignant Missourians to action. A state senator demanded an investigation; Boonville's residents held a mass meeting...
...picture was reminiscent of the terrible black & white mass of photographs that had illustrated the war and the war-crimes trials. It also recalled the fierce word pictures of how Old Testament warriors dealt with their enemies. It showed the mutilated bodies of 35 young Haganah fighters who had been ambushed by Arabs at Kfar Etzion, in the lonely hills of Hebron...
Lyons branched out in 1912 with its first Corner House near Piccadilly Circus, biggest restaurant in the world, where 4,500 could eat at once on the nine floors. This mass-market feeding was immensely aided by Chairman Isidore Salmon's penchant for bad puns and good publicity. Every Briton who read a paper became familiar with Sir Isidore's brainchild George, who was always "gone to Lyonch...
...College. A 15-hour-a-day worker, Joe gets up at 5130 in his home at Newton, Mass., spends his off hours on his 46-ft. cruiser daydreaming up new textile tricks, like "Crown College." To pep up morale in his main Crown plant in Pawtucket, R.I., Joe built glass-enclosed smoking rooms, decorated the plant in cheerful colors, landscaped its lawns, built a playground and baseball diamond. Among New England's grimy, ancient plants it so stood out that workers began calling it Crown College...
...down book read, and record their impressions throughout (from "superior" to "bad") on an electronic gadget called Teldox. When it's all over, a composite graph indicates the weak spots in the story and the author is called in to make repairs. Whatever survives these sievings through the mass mind, Sindlinger says, is a story that's sure to sell...