Word: masses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heat wave set off all kinds of trouble. In New Haven, Conn, and Milton, Mass., firemen had to turn up and cool off drawbridges which had expanded in the heat. Indianapolis had a plague of Peeping Toms. In Lakeview, Mich., a 16-year-old boy fainted while cutting wood, toppled into a buzz saw, and was killed. By week's end 147 people had died, mostly from heat prostration. New York police, ordered to help keep the city's water consumption down to 1,300,000 gallons a day, were driven wild by wrench-waving gangs who turned...
...could be sure that their incapacity for revolution was exceeded only by their disinterest in it. Their mood was as grey as the overcast sky above. When a thin drizzle of rain fell, hundreds ran for shelter. Cracked a German onlooker: "Ah! These revolutionaries are not waterproof!" As a mass they resembled nothing bolder than a crowd at a railroad station waiting for a late train. They stood in idle little groups, talking over personal, non-political problems: "Emmie, have you no idea where I can get some new shoes...
Writing had come hard to Ralph Waldo Emerson. "The sun has not yet illuminated the arch of heaven nor begun to display his brilliant beams," he wrote to an aunt in 1816, in a letter just found tucked away in the floor of an old Concord, Mass. house. "This I suppose is the time to feel inspired and this the time I shall improve to write to you." He finally had to wind it up, because "night with sable wings approaches and compels me to bid adieu." He was 13 at the time...
...Southern white," wrote Carter, "is increasingly overcoming all but one of the emotional biases inherited from 250 mutually blighting years of a master & slave relationship. The one: the white South's insistence upon segregation in the mass . .. [It] is as united as 30 million people can be in its insistence on segregation . . . But [its] evolution is being immeasurably slowed down by the ferocity, the punitive spirit and the lack of balanced approach which Ray Sprigle's articles in great part exemplify . . . How about giving some recognition to the good things that are happening in the South...
Died. Charles Evans Hughes, 86, eleventh Chief Justice of the United States; in Osterville, Mass, (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...