Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Congo. A thousand miles to the West, in the prosperous Congo, Belgian Governor General Léo Pétillon, 52, spoke out still more boldly. To the 14 million Negroes and 70,000 whites he announced a drastic change in Belgium's successful policy of economic advance but no votes -for whites or blacks. Henceforth, educated Africans will 1) be gradually assimilated into the Congo's administration, 2) get a voice in local councils...
...North Sea flowed around Kublai's Green Mount (also called the Hill of Ten Thousand Years), converted it into an island serenely adorned by the White Pagoda, the Pavilion of Perpetual Southern Melodies, the Tower of Felicitous Skies, Wisdom's Fragrant Terrace...
...throbs the metropolitan life of Peking itself. Leading off from Kublai's broad roads, which checkerboard the city, are warrens of hutungs, narrow lanes of deep dust or mud lined by windowless walls of inward-facing houses, and named in keeping with their history: Ditch of a Thousand People, Dog's Neck Lane, Human Hair Lane, Chase the Thief Lane...
Brooklyn teams have always had a special genius for blowing ball games in a thousand different ways. Brooklyn ball fans grew up with the Daffiness Boys and their bonehead base running of the '20s. They remember a rooter who turned murderer with rage over a loss to the Giants, a minister praying vainly for victory (1946-the Cardinals won the pennant) on the steps of Borough Hall, Catcher Mickey Owen dropping a third strike and losing a championship. With the inevitability of Greek tragedy, the beloved Bums were often contenders, sometimes won pennants and never won a World Series...
More than a thousand mourners showed up, and one blind old Irishman insisted tremulously on being led to the coffin so he could kiss...