Word: masses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...groups within the party have looked about to find what could be salvaged from the wreckage. With the southern wing standing just as pat as it has for 70 years, the job of reclamation has been left to that movement of many colors--the Democrat left. Within this heterogeneous mass has risen a vast confusion over aims and a debilitating internecine strife over fundamentals, with treatment of the Communists lying at the heart of the difficulty. Strained Russian-American relations have transformed Communism from a wartime ally into the greatest red herring in the American press. This swift change...
...security police are believed to number some 170,000 full-time employes, some 20,000 more men than there are in the regular army. Between 50 and 60 thousand are engaged in routine snooping and spying. The rest are mobilized in flying squads for mass arrests or operations against the "underground." The underground, official label for practically any group that opposes the Government, is also the official excuse for UB activities. The secret police may arrest without warrant anyone in Poland except district secretaries and higher officials of the Communist Party...
...Northrop limbs, now ready for mass production (as soon as the company finds limb manufacturers willing to make and fit them), are the first products of artificial limb research launched by the Government 21 months ago. A civilian committee, now under the National Research Council, has spent $500,000 on research, has $1,200,000 more to spend. But Model A is not yet in sight...
Better than any other press lord, the moody genius of the Daily News knew how to make the modern mass-circulation daily an attractive grab-bag, with prizes to please either sex and every taste. Critics might object that newspapers should be newspapers, and censure anything else in them as a regrettable defection from duty. But Patterson recognized that readers wanted something that was part almanac, shopping guide, magazine and variety show as well as news bulletin board. Like U.S. radio, the press dealt in news, entertainment and commercials; the amount of each might differ, but the ingredients were...
...that's necessary for a solid interpretation. A very fair poet himself, Blunden writes of Shelley devotedly, but with the ease and savor of long personal familiarity-not only with Shelley's works, but with his period (1792-1822), the scenes in which he lived and the mass of material about...