Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thousand Jews, mostly D.P.s from nearby camps, set out for the Süddeutsche's offices. Munich police nervously phoned U.S. Military Government, were told that since the demonstration had no permit, the police could go ahead and) break it up. Cops formed a line in the path of the crowd, but the Jews marched right through it. Two mounted police squads bore down on the demonstrators, who fought back with stones, bricks and clubs. Shots cracked; three Jews fell, wounded by bullets. Enraged, the D.P.s overturned and burned a police truck, injured 26 policemen with bricks. Two companies...
Chief Bonne was right about the free treatment.* The illustrious patient promptly had his eyes examined, but he would have to wait about five months for his specs. One million three hundred thousand plain Britons were in the queue ahead...
...course, only a Walt Disney kind of animated monster -immense, awesome, full of old air, essentially harmless and monstrously inefficient. Its eyes are rolling cameras; it has a kidney-shaped swimming pool for a mouth, talent scouts for teeth, and a broad backside armor-plated with thousand-dollar bills. The overall effect is that of a dredge...
...this red raging was due to what the Coca-Cola company calls "our own individual EGA." By last week its Coke selling campaign had proved so successful that five bottling plants were clanking away in Milan, Leghorn, Venice and Rome. Several hundred thousand bottles were sold daily, and the Communists rightly feared it was another victory for U.S. free enterprise. Complained one Red: "Yesterday I went into my favorite wineshop and found three people there. All were drinking Coca-Cola. The humiliation...
Delirious Denunciations. Re-reading Sinclair Lewis' Main Street, the New York Herald Tribune's Lewis Gannett asked: "Is this the book that launched a thousand quips, and stirred the orators to deliriums of denunciation? Main Street doesn't read like a crusading book today. Maybe it never was as much'a crusading book as some of its readers assumed." Francis Hackett found Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms has been made "trite" by time and another war. Hackett's conclusion, which would call many Hemingway fans to arms: "[This] lyrical novel...