Word: masses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first the opposition to Jewish immigration came only from a few Arab leaders and freebooters. But today, if those leaders gave the word, it would find a readier response among the mass of Arabs. On the eve of World War II, Britain yielded to Arab demands, limited immigration into Palestine to 75,000 more Jews, sharply restricted the sale of land to Jews...
Wizened Old Master Orozco contributed a twisted mass of bayonets and struggling bodies entitled The Trench, which looked like a great many he had done before. (His best-known Trench was painted in 1923.) Fat, fast-talking Old Master Diego Rivera, who can always be counted on for a surprise, was surprisingly absent. He had been appointed a juror, and resigned at the last minute because "too little attention is given to architecture. I believe architecture is the most important of all the plastic arts. And second, I think too much prominence is given to the older artists...
...program will make VA easily the biggest dispenser of mass mental medicine in history. Army & Navy doctors are not greatly surprised; 63% of the medical discharges from the armed services in the U.S. were NP (neuropsychiatric) cases. In addition, many a soldier who stoically endured the war has cracked up since...
...leaving his mark on privy and barracks walls. After Bikini it was found chalked on the battleship Pennsylvania. One of numerous G.I. theories about Kilroy: he was an AWOL infantryman, trying to let his commanding officer know where he was. But an A.A.F. sergeant, Francis J. Kilroy of Everett, Mass., said not at all: a pal of his had started it just...
...erstwhile Japanese prisoners that the Maryknollers chose last week as their new superior general. He is the Most Rev. Raymond A. Lane, 52, since 1940 Bishop of Fushun, Manchuria. A slender, freckled man with thinning red hair, he was born in Lawrence, Mass., turned down a chance for West Point, and turned away from business (with the Liggett drug chain) to become a priest...