Word: masses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even by his own dilution of the blood on his hands, Hoess was history's top killer, the master of mass atrocity. The number of lives he had taken in Germany's horror camp at Auschwitz (Oswiecim) far exceeded the largest total in any historically accepted account of the world's bloodiest massacres. The tolls of all the recorded pogroms did not add up to the 2,800,000 Jewish lives which ended at Auschwitz...
...enable one to vegetate too long in the darkness without risk of succumbing." Then De Gaulle lashed out against the French parliamentary system and the new constitution. Said he: "The day is coming when, rejecting sterile games and reforming the badly built framework of the country . . . the immense mass of the French will rally to France...
...Hours of the Bells. The day, for José, begins at 5:30, when he climbs to the bell platform and sounds Dona María nine times. Then he has breakfast, slips into his cassock and runs down into the cathedral to serve 7 o'clock Mass. At 8:30 he wanders into the Zócalo (the city's chief square) looking for assistants. If there are no idlers about, he calls on his friends the trolley-car motormen, who not infrequently abandon their cars in mid-street, at the height of the rush hour...
...archbishop starts the Mass, José points with a baton at Santa María de Guadalupe, and the bell begins tolling. One by one José brings in the other bells, not just the eight played on ordinary days, but special bells like San Pedro, San Antonio. Then he silences them, each in turn, until only Santo Angel de la Guarda, sweetest-toned of all, tolls softly, a sign that down below in the cathedral the sermon is being preached. At the Gloria, he swings up his arms and all 18 bells peal out. José, the bellringer, stands...
...make the play, Poet MacLeish reverently lifted pieces from the four gospelers and from Bach's B Minor Mass, St. John Passion and St. Matthew Passion. These fitted elements he reconciled into a compelling drama. And he reconciled the whole drama, in a way that has seldom been done, with the special predicaments of broadcasting...