Word: masses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Quiet." Speaking at a mass meeting of Yenching students, the commissar said Chinese Reds desired friendly relations with all foreign countries, including the U.S., and eventually hope to be admitted into the United Nations. The speech avoided all the usual attacks on "American imperialism." A few days later the same commissar visited neighboring Tsinghua University, a Chinese government institution, and made the same professions of Communist respectability. The fact that his first concern had been for American-endowed Yenching was not lost on the courtesy-sensitive Chinese...
...light. The mind is not exhibited but analyzed; the audience not merely understands it but feels its tensions. These powerful effects are achieved without off-focus blurs, mad music, or tilting rooms, but with fine direction and expert acting. The one photographic trick is used in picturing the writhing mass of hopeless minds struggling at the bottom...
...expected mass confusion to which the librarians were resigned failed to materialize, said McNiff, because few men got around to doing anything. Sneaking around corners and up stairs, and fingering the woodwork in small groups, they had no time or inclination to ask questions or take out books...
Firm Resolve. In the year 1948-a fitful year in a nervous century-historians could record that a mass of U.S. intentions, promises and pledges had hardened into resolve and action. In 1948, the world's greatest nation of free men finally resolved to meet Communism's deadly challenge with every weapon of peace that it possessed; and if the struggle against Communism required war, the U.S. would fight...
...cause of the trouble was twofold: television sales had fallen off; the tube bottleneck had been broken, and manufacturers could now turn out more sets as well as pass on some of the savings of mass production. Some 70 new stations are scheduled to go on the air this year, and eastern and midwestern networks are to be linked this month, so the industry's prospects are by no means gloomy. But could the 2,000,000 sets which manufacturers hope to turn out in 1949 be sold at current high prices? Admiral's Siragusa said...