Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Negroes of Montgomery, Ala., the week dawned (as one of them put it) "darker than a thousand midnights." For more than eleven months, in a mass movement combining Christian fervor with Gandhi-like passive resistance, they had mounted and sustained in the "Cradle of the Confederacy" an almost total boycott of the city's segregated buses (TIME, April 2 ). Led by a handful of well-educated and young Negro leaders-notably by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., 27, pastor of a local Baptist church-they had efficiently put together and operated a car pool of some...
...Israel Night at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House in the third week of the Middle Eastern crisis. Three thousand people, predominantly American Jews, had paid for their admission in advance to the tune of $475,000 worth of Israeli bonds to hear Baritone Robert Merrill, Concert Pianist Eugene List, Singer-Pianist Hazel Scott and Cantor David Kusevitsky. Israel Night, its sponsor, the New York Metropolitan Council of B'nai Brith, had announced, was part of a six-week bond-selling drive, which will be climaxed on Dec. 6 by the Sixth Annual Hanukkah Festival in Madison Square Garden...
...Thousand Years. This year, by philanthropic devices both extravagant and subtle, U.S. Jews will raise and send something close to $125 million in voluntary charitable contributions to Israel. In the eight years of Israel's independence, American Jewish organizations have already sent more than $700 million to Israel-an outpouring that is the No. 1 phenomenon of U.S. philanthropy...
Corpses on the Bridges. As soon as Russia switched to violent repression, a thousand tanks had rumbled into the city and at every cross street they were drawn up with their backs to each other in protective circles, each tank able to fire down a different street. Batteries of heavy Soviet artillery were set up on Gellert Hill, and H.E. shells were poured into buildings where resistance was spotted. But the rebels were not without resource. Said Gyula Petoki, who escaped: "During World War II the Germans had made doors in cellars between houses so that people could move around...
...result of bombing, sabotage and plain self-defense, the flow of some 1,700,000 bbls. out of total export production of 2,600,000 bbls. a day had been cut off or disrupted, at least temporarily, and the prospects were that the flow of a few hundred thousand more barrels might...