Word: masses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...delegation visited Roman Catholic Archbishop Aloysius Stepinac in prison (TIME, Oct. 21, 1946), said: "We assert emphatically that reports of mistreatment of Stepinac were false and provocative. ... He is in good health and there are no restrictions on his religious liberty. ... He says Mass daily in a chapel next to his cell...
Mostly Mud. It was not much of a capital. Karachi was a little trading village until the British seized it in 1843. Shortly thereafter, Scholar-Adventurer Richard Burton described it in Scinde or the Unhappy Village as a "mass of low mud hovels and tall mud houses with flat mud roofs, windowless mud walls, and numerous mud ventilators, surrounded by a tumbledown parapet of mud, built upon a platform of mud-covered rock...
...born. There is a plan afoot to rename it Jinnahabad. Karachans, however, did not welcome Pakistan with the wild enthusiasm that swept the new dominion of India (see above). After all, Pakistan was the creation of one clever man, Jinnah; the difference between a slick political trick and a mass movement was apparent in the contrast between Karachi and New Delhi...
...Stoddard kept mum. The issue was a "family matter," he insisted, and not one for public debate. To his surprise, parents of public-school pupils also began to write letters to newspapers. In a special poll, the Bulletin found that a thumping majority of them wanted to abolish the mass-promotion system. Said the 1,000 members of the Big Four Fathers' Association: "We've felt for a long time there was something wrong with the school system. Now, someone has put his finger on it." The Mothers' Discussion Group agreed...
...monthly Christian Herald. Now a roving editor of the Reader's Digest, 51-year-old Layman High still takes time out to be a preacher and critic of Protestantism. Last winter he told U.S. Protestants that they were "preacher-ridden" (TIME, Feb. 17). Last week at East Northfield, Mass., he told an interdenominational audience at the 63rd Northfield General Conference that the church was failing its members. Said High...