| 单词 | mass |
| 例句 | Because the organs of mass communication are often in the hands of the state, this can commonly be arranged. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z As I rinse the tofu in the sink, I am startled by a dark mass that appears suddenly at the window. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z In the time it took my stunned self to glance up at the clock, the masses of students around me had disappeared. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z “She was a writer and a poet. She wrote a poem that is engraved on the Statue of Liberty that says, ‘Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.’” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z The mass was ending, the fleeting mystery was already vanishing. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z As he hesitated, the bridge seemed to come at him in a dark mass, like snow sliding from a bough. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The next thirty minutes were an eruption of mass confusion. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z There was a mass clattering of chairs and scraping of forms as everyone was seated. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Before them rose Bree-hill barring the way, a dark mass against misty stars; and under its western flank nestled a large village. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z I went around the side of the church where I knew the boys from town hung around until mass began. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The same goes for Jim Crow and mass incarceration. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Beneath it, a mass of tentacles covered with circular stingers twisted in the water, at least ten feet long. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z The top was a thick mass of large limbs, and it hadn’t shed all of its leaves yet. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Inspired at mass meetings by the testimony of elderly people who walked great distances and poor families who donated money for gasoline, protesters kept walking and vowed to do so until justice came. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z Over ten feet tall, even hunched over, he shuffled through the mass of insects. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Up out of the swirling, silvery mass rose a little old man revolving slowly in the Pensieve, silver as a ghost but much more solid, with a thatch of hair that completely covered his eyes. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z But if mass incarceration is understood as a system of social control—specifically, racial control—then the system is a fantastic success. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z In the middle of the road was a flattened, bloody mass of brown prickles and white fur, with small black feet and snout crushed round the edges. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z At the ANC annual conference in Bloemfontein, the organization adopted the league’s Program of Action, which called for boycotts, strikes, stay-at-homes, passive resistance, protest demonstrations, and other forms of mass action. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z By the end of the day there are “masses of bouquets and wreaths.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Regardless of whether the engineers conducted a test in a wind tunnel or in free flight, the output was the same: torrents, scads, bundles, reams, masses, mounds, jumbles, piles, and goo-gobs of numbers. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z She took his arm, clutching it in a dead rigid hard grip as if her fingers, her hand, were a small mass of wire. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m part of the Friday-evening commuter throng, just another wage slave amongst the hot, tired masses, looking forward to getting home and sitting outside with a cold beer, dinner with the kids, an early night. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Mixed with the scents of grass and cattle came the warm, thick smell of a heavy cloud mass, still far off. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Whereas black success stories undermined the logic of Jim Crow, they actually reinforce the system of mass incarceration. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The Agriculture Department’s mass control program, on the other hand, cost about $3.50 per acre — the most expensive, the most damaging, and the least effective program of all. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z As the probe approaches zero distance from the electron, the number of particles it passes goes up to infinity—so the probe’s measurements of the mass and charge of the electron also go to infinity. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Virtually all of it–99.9 percent of the mass of the solar system–went to make the Sun. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z No face, baggy clothes, eyes peering out from a mass of scars. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z There are whispers about terrible things happening in Poland, about low-flying planes that shoot women and children, about German soldiers who machine-gun Poles and Jews over mass graves. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z I saw that a vast distance separated the agitators from the masses, a distance so vast that the agitators did not know how to appeal to the people they sought to lead. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z There was something strange down there—a mass of gray and brownish material. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Just as the taste of maple sugar faded along her tongue, she bent over, pushed back delicate leaves, and found masses of plump red little berries. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z The cold air masses created by this icecap clash with the warm winds from the ocean to churn up a storm belt that surrounds the continent, making the Southern Ocean the most treacherous sea anywhere. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Make the masses happy by redistributing much of the tribute received, in popular ways. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z One morning before mass I decided, I’m going to get me some Jesus blood and Jesus body. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z According to the rules of quantum mechanics, the zero-dimensional electron has infinite mass and infinite charge. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z It fell in a tinkling, jangling mass to the ground. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z As a leader of a mass organization, one must listen to the people, and I agreed that we had been remiss in keeping the entire organization informed about the course of the negotiations. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The Italian woman had a mass of tight black curls, starting at her forehead, that rose in a mountainous pompadour and cascaded down her back. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z You know: “dogs and cats living together...mass hysteria!” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Venus has almost the same mass,* size, and density as the Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The social insects are like this; they move, and live all their lives, in a mass; a beehive is a spherical animal. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The black-and-white mass near the wire screen remained intact. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z There was everywhere a bewildering mass of fruit blossom—apple, plum, pear, cherry; and as we drove by I could see the green grass under the trees spangled with the fallen petals. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z At Easter high mass I was dizzied by the mucous perfume of white flowers at the celebration of rebirth. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother had laid out our clean clothes for Sunday mass, and we had gone to bed early because we always went to early mass. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z For instance, the mass production of bronze tools, which was just beginning in the South American Andes in the centuries before A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But beyond them lay a seething mass of factories and skyscrapers. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He had no idea where he had got his picture of academic life—perhaps from the Dore illustrations of Dante’s Inferno with its massed and radiant angels. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The Mayor knows, for he told the merchants of the city that the budget would be cut down, that no new taxes would be imposed to satisfy the clamor of the masses of the needy! Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z And while Americans were still digesting these worrisome assessments, out of the Middle East came the first sketchy reports of Egyptian troops massing on the Israeli border. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Her reverie, once rich in plausible details, had become a passing silliness before the hard mass of the actual. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The newspaper acknowledged that times were tough down south but cautioned that the employment market for blacks up north was too weak to support a mass of new job seekers. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Primordial black holes with initial masses less than this figure would already have completely evaporated, but those with slightly greater masses would still be emitting radiation in the form of X rays and gamma rays. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z And yet the great public prayer of the mass would go on. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z My fingers pressed against my temples as a mass of thoughts played tug-of-war. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z The infinite zero of a black hole—mass crammed into zero space, curving space infinitely—punches a hole in the smooth rubber sheet. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “There,” she said, pointing at the shapeless mass. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Up out of that snarling, growling, slashing mass reared an old redbone hound. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Beringia, as this land is called, was surprisingly temperate, sometimes even warmer than it is today; masses of low flowers covered it every spring. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Grief, terror, love, longing — these were intangibles, but the intangibles had their own mass and specific gravity, they had tangible weight. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Slant, hands red and wet with sores, stood shirtless in the pond, great masses of insects swarming about him. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z They had a great mass of the fruit with them and all of it properly ripe. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z You cannot make out individual words in the mass, except that the recurrent phrase, “But look—” keeps bobbing above the surf of language. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z We were worried about attending mass the following Sunday. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z At its core, then, mass incarceration, like Jim Crow, is a “race-making institution.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z By the time he retired, he'd become the Court's most vocal critic of excessive punishment and mass incarceration. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Finally, this chapter responds to skeptics who claim that mass incarceration cannot be understood as a racial caste system because many “get tough on crime” policies are supported by African Americans. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z In church, at the close of mass, the congregation prayed for ‘the conversion of Russia.’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He must be going through a mass of them. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z On the one hand, the election of Barack Obama to the presidency creates an extraordinary opportunity for those seeking to end the system of mass incarceration in America. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Matt spat out a mass of thick slime. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The Tribune argued that the only greater gathering was the massing of Xerxes’ army of over five million souls in the fifth century B.C. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Now to the left he could see the great mass of Pettigrew’s Division, with Trimble coming up behind him, advancing in superb order, line after line, a stunning sight, red battle flags, row on row. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Urey’s quarry was an atom of mass 2 that by Birge’s reckoning appeared in hydrogen gas at a concentration of 1 for every 4,500 atoms of hydrogen-1. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Looking at the rubbery white octopus chunks bobbing in the tarry mass of liver, I rejected an entire meal for the first time since childhood. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Scarlett Amber Perkins was fifteen, and, at that moment, sitting on the upper deck of the elderly bus, she was a mass of angry hate. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Outside, lying in a huddled mass, was Mrs. Rogers. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z When she came down, carrying fat, sleepy Campbell Junior, her mass of red hair was combed, pinned up, and draped with what she called “my genteel black veil.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z ‘Is that the opening of — of the Morgul Valley, away over there beyond that black mass?’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The vines crowded each other in a twirling mass, winding desperately around each other’s stems, suffocating the tender com shoots. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z As the spaceship goes ever faster, time slows down more and more, but at the same time, the spaceship’s mass gets greater and greater. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Listed below are several of the most obvious similarities between Jim Crow and mass incarceration, followed by a discussion of a few parallels that have not been discussed so far. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “You’re the shame of our family name,” she shouted at him one Sunday after mass when she saw him in his new house playing cards with his officers. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Ma's eyes and lips squeeze into a mass of wrinkles around her nose. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I had come down amid a mass of sweating bodies, had landed on a sneaker instead of the floor. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z After the mass, I pulled off the surplice and cassock and rushed to meet my parents, waiting for me in front of the church. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Leukocytes become more actively phagocytic, release lysosomal enzymes, turn sticky, and aggregate together in dense masses, occluding capillaries and shutting off the blood supply. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It had no leaves, but was one white mass of blossom. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The direct harm caused to whites caused by mass incarceration seems to distinguish it from Jim Crow; yet, like many of the other differences, this one requires some qualification. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Why shouldn’t the ANC participate in the new Bantu Authorities structures as a means of remaining in touch with the masses of people? Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He tried not to think of the stories he had heard lately of mass killings; of men, women, and children being forced to dig their own graves and then being shot and thrown into them. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z The Countess of Anjou always used to vanish out of the window at the secrets of the mass. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Rather than blaming civil rights groups, however, it is far more productive to understand the reasons why the response to mass incarceration has been so constrained. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z She saw him go into the candy store and buy four Sweet Caporal cigarettes with the two cents after mass. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Scientists even theorize that if you could take the position, speed, trajectory, and mass of every object in the universe and feed it into a supercomputer, you could predict the future of everything. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z The ghetto masses already had entrusted me with an image of leadership among them. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The bladder area was the worst, covered by a solid mass of cancerous tissue. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Before the mid-seventeenth century, gears were laid out and cut by hand; Hooke designed the first machine to produce identical gears, thus making possible the mass production of machinery. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Michael Donovan brushed down his red hair with a violent motion of his hand and a total indifference to the fact that the unruly mass sprang to attention again immediately. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Amil seemed a little steadier on his feet, and we joined the growing mass of people headed toward the border, still many miles away. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z All of these corporate and political interests have a stake in the expansion—not the elimination—of the system of mass incarceration. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z As the broadcast continued, the inquiries became more fearful and mentioned Martian heat-ray attacks, explosions, and mass casualties. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z What follows is not a plan, but several questions and claims offered for serious consideration by those committed to racial justice and interested in dismantling mass incarceration. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The rain had stopped by then and the thick masses of gray clouds were beginning to break apart. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Looking down, I could see the broken tangled mass of the top. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Comprising more than two-thirds of the brain mass, it is the realm of both intuition and critical analysis. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z For instance, the renormalization trouble—the infinite mass and charge of the electron—vanishes. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The vis essentialis then came along, like an invisible hand, and molded the formation of this mass into a human form. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Arguably the most important parallel between mass incarceration and Jim Crow is that both have served to define the meaning and significance of race in America. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The Tipping Point is the moment of critical mass, the threshold, the boiling point. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally Santa said, “I think I’ll send her family a mass.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z And the effect of this rearrangement is to make the mass seem less a prayer directed to God, more a communal celebration of the Eucharist. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z For to preserve the old orthodoxy it would have been necessary to insist that the world’s land masses were confined to one hemisphere. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z My life was a tangled mass of lies and half-truths. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Of all the reasons that we fail to know the truth about mass incarceration, though, one stands out: a profound misunderstanding regarding how racial oppression actually works. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He nodded toward the rolling pack of Grievers between them and the Cliff—they looked like one big mass of rumbling, spiked blubber, glistening with flashes of lights off steel. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Her heart-shaped face, and her dancing deep grey eyes, and the brown curling mass of her hair. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z The Defender proclaimed it “the popular promenade for the masses and classes.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z For all he knew, my entire torso was one giant mass of scar tissue. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Vultures had found it, and a few silverback jackals nipped at the birds and wriggled through the massed feathers. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Kennedy turned to the most powerful mass medium of his day: radio. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z He looked over the seething mass of guests. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Nonracial explanations and excuses for the systematic mass incarceration of people of color are plentiful. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “The turbid river was encumbered with masses of charred wood, with black hulks of vessels, and skeletons of fallen bridges. . . .” The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z The vast trunk, supported in the grove by its torn-up roots and out on the grass by the mass of branches, was high above their heads. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Lord Asriel sat in the adamant tower facing his spy captain across a mass of scattered papers. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The children fought with sticks and stones, and mass chaos ensued, with hundreds of children wounded, and two white men stoned to death. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z To Taran’s amazement the brambles began to shudder as though being pushed from inside; then, with much scraping and snapping of twigs, the whole mass opened a crack. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z A flow of negative energy into the black hole therefore reduces its mass. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The approximations I used to derive the emission from black holes should work well when the black hole has a mass greater than a fraction of a gram. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Some might argue that as disturbing as this system appears to be, there is nothing particularly new about mass incarceration; it is merely a continuation of past drug wars and biased law enforcement practices. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z They all looked up and saw a great mass of seagulls wheeling round and round in the sky. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z Her hair was a mass of soft black curls. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The tangled mass of limbs slowed my dogs and they all but tore the treetop apart getting out of it. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z It is thought that similar but even larger black holes, with masses of about a hundred million times the mass of the sun, occur at the centers of quasars. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The Grand High Witch paused and glared at the mass of eager faces in the audience. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z The birth of mass incarceration can be traced to a similar political dynamic. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Though rather than being determined by mass, its force is determined by popularity. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z I reflected on how mass imprisonment has littered the national landscape with carceral monuments of reckless and excessive punishment and ravaged communities with our hopeless willingness to condemn and discard the most vulnerable among us. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Your mass stays the same wherever you go, but your weight varies depending on how far you are from the center of some other massive object like a planet. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z He takes a circuitous route around the Hub, away from the mass of Exclusion Guards and internees who are still pouring out of the Mess and toward the Midway. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z It has been calculated that a baseball thrown at a hundred miles an hour will pick up 0.000000000002 grams of mass on its way to home plate. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z A campaign was orchestrated to erase from the face of the earth the good name of the former President, in the hope that the masses would stop mourning him. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z They don’t go all the way to zero distance from the electron when they calculate the electron’s true mass and charge; they stop short of zero at an arbitrary distance. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Emma melted through her metal cuffs, which fell away from her hands in a deformed mass of red-hot metal. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Desperate to get out, thousands of refugees headed to the airport and massed on the runway, making it impossible for planes to take off. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z He saw the white naked line of his backbone and the dark mass of the head with the projecting bill and all the nakedness between. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Behind her followed the other two enchantresses, also in flapping night robes, their hair unbound and falling about their shoulders in a mass of snarls and tangles. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z Pong whirled around, searching the mass of shoppers. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z As a group, throughout mass, the congregation responds to the priest with various prayers; one listens to a steady flow of prayers said in English. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z And the great gates were ajar and the people pressed forward so tightly packed together that foot was on foot and body wedged tightly against body so that the whole mass moved together as one. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z They crossed the crown of the hill, had a brief glimpse all the way out across Pennsylvania, woods far away, a line of batteries massed and firing, men moving in the smoke and rocks below. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Close up, each sketch was a mass of minute detail, much like the creatures I’d seen years before. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Sudden, mass death had stricken their city, and they were no wiser at all about the nature of the killer. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z The conference underlined one of the most important and demanding tasks before the ANC: to transform an illegal underground liberation movement to a legal mass political party. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A slogan is a vital link between the organization and the masses it seeks to lead. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother gasped when she saw my legs—a mass of bruises, swelling, and dried blood. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z She argued that she was more connected to God reading her Rousseau than when she was at mass listening to Padre Ignacio intoning the Nicene Creed. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Today mass incarceration defines the meaning of blackness in America: black people, especially black men, are criminals. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z But it would end up being one of many little things—a slow accrual, compounding steadily and imperceptibly toward critical mass. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z In the lifetime of the universe there has apparently not been enough time for an initial gravitational nonuniformity to collect the amount of mass that seems to reside in the Virgo supercluster. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The railroads scheduled special trains to carry the masses of humanity southward. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z At the far end of the room O’Brien was sitting at a table under a green-shaded lamp, with a mass of papers on either side of him. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z This means that the mass and charge don’t go off to infinity, because you are no longer passing an infinite cloud of particles as you approach the electron. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The generals of Europe are still ordering massed assaults against fortified positions long years after his death, in 1904, at the age of eighty-three. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Chamberlain could begin to see out across the valley: mass of milky smoke below, yellow flashes. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z But it is safe to say that word of mouth is — even in this age of mass communications and multimillion-dollar advertising campaigns — still the most important form of human communication. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It was my goal to produce dresses that the great mass of the people could afford, dresses that would—from the business angle—sell equally well to both large and small, city and country stores. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Jetta shot Miles a dimpled smile, shoveling her mass of curly hair back over her shoulder. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z “Hermione, there’s obviously been a mass breakout which the Ministry has hushed up. Travers’s hood fell off when I cursed him, he’s supposed to be inside too. But what happened to you, Remus? Where’s George?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Alfons couldn’t believe the officer’s audacity to call Adolf Hitler a mass murderer. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z When the two pieces met, they would form a critical mass, the amount of material needed to get a chain reaction going. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z She saw Matthias go down under the onslaught of kicks and ran even faster, impeded by mice all around who scattered in panic, thinking they were under mass invasion. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Those engaged in the development and manufacture of weapons of mass destruction are given salaries, perquisites of power and, where possible, public honors at the highest levels available in their respective societies. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z This force is universal, that is, every particle feels the force of gravity, according to its mass or energy. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Don’t use either of them to excess. mass exodus. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Listen everyone,” Magdalys said, reaching the mass of kids, “we’ve got to split up. I’m going to take all the youngest ones.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z But he wasn’t prepared for the mass of black shirts coming at him in a crazy blur, like hungry rats jumping over each other’s backs to get to a speck of food. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Other institutions—the nation’s political parties, the industries of mass entertainment and communications, the companies that employed them—have all treated my parents with condescension. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z This was something with mass and energy, something . . . unnerving. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s time to use the memory serum virus for a mass reset,” he says. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z And even if every star managed to lose enough mass to avoid collapse, what would happen if you added more mass to a white dwarf or neutron star to take it over the limit? A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In my busiest year, eighth grade, I served at over two hundred masses. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The sea does not become a solid mass of cod as it would surely do if all the progeny of all the cod were to survive. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z As a crime reduction strategy, mass incarceration is an abysmal failure. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z A passing taxi driver leaned out of his cab window, alerting them to a group of rowdy white youths massing nearby, which sounded like a lot more fun to them. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z What she and her husband couldn’t know–what no one could know until Einstein explained things the following decade–was that the rocks were converting mass into energy in an exceedingly efficient way. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z An example of a difference that is less significant than it may initially appear is the “fact” that Jim Crow was explicitly race-based, whereas mass incarceration is not. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Although the parallels listed above should be enough to give anyone pause, there are a number of other, less obvious, similarities between mass incarceration and Jim Crow that have not been explored in earlier chapters. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Simultaneously, the thousand other flags also fell, as massed trumpeters and bassoonists in the Court of Honor played “The Star-Spangled Banner” and “America.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The asthma was under control, but the doctor alerted me to something else—Malia’s body mass index, a measure of health that factors together height, weight, and age, was beginning to creep up. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I would rather go to a high ceremonial mass, reap for an hour or two its communal assurance. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He clenched his fists as the spirit masses congealed and then took shape. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z He could not scramble up this mass of uneven rocks. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Whites should prove their commitment to dismantling not only mass incarceration, but all of the structures of racial inequality that guarantee for whites the resilience of white privilege. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z In the case of Cygnus X-l, this is about six times the mass of the sun, which, according to Chandrasekhar’s result, is too great for the unseen object to be a white dwarf. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z His eyes are the color of rubies, and his face is an expressionless mass of bruises. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A mass that’s gotta be the army, marching its way forward, so far away I can only tell it’s them at all cuz it looks like dark water flowing into a dry riverbed. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z His body is a paradox of mass and lightness, crafted to slip through air with the ease of an arrow. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z If Longstreet’s spy was right, then there could truly be cavalry in Gettysburg and masses of infantry right behind. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z In just the past decade, they have uncovered a huge mass of brand-new information, and there is plenty more ahead; the biologic revolution is evidently still in its early stages. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The ANC was a mass liberation movement that welcomed all those with the same objectives. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It is much more like a factory, where masses of people must do every step right, on time, together, or the whole system collapses. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Volpe was among the masses who rushed onto the field and helped pull down the wooden goalposts, and for many years he kept a little chunk of one of them as a souvenir. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z A critical mass is reached, and now your soul collapses in upon itself. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Once she’d worked the dough into a fine, smooth mass, she let the twins roll out their own tortillas. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The girl drops her bag and grabs my chin and wipes my face clean enough so I can see her bright teeth and tangled mass of hair that looks like rusty wire. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Another means is the shipment of plants carrying the egg masses, the form in which the species exists over winter. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z But she had not had a bold epiphany and there was no cause; it was simply that layer after layer of discontent had settled in her, and formed a mass that now propelled her. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The black mass of Ross’s wrongdoing emerged slowly and irrefutably. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “Just tell me you’re not an escaped convict or a mass murderer or something.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Down on the mall in front of Buckingham Palace, there’s a mass of people with banners, signs, American flags, Union Jacks, pride pennants streaming over their heads. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The bodies of 112 men, women, and children had been found in a church in Northridge, California, the third apparent mass suicide in and around Los Angeles in the past week. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z So long as mass drug arrests are concentrated in impoverished urban areas, police chiefs have little reason to fear a political backlash, no matter how aggressive and warlike the efforts may be. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Instinctively, Harry looked up, but there was no sign of white among the mass of brown and gray. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z The mass gleaning at Magnetic Propulsion Laboratory, although never reported officially, was big news. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Whispering masses of people are just milling around in the shadows, waiting for a concert that will never start. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Recovering himself in a minute he opened for us two hulking patent cabinets which held his massed suits and dressing-gowns and ties, and his shirts, piled like bricks in stacks a dozen high. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z They listened to the wind rustling the heaps of trash—because now that Tendai had time to rest, he saw that the hills, the ground and everything was a mass of packed garbage. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Brown did not end Jim Crow; a mass movement had to emerge first—one that aimed to create a new public consensus opposed to the evils of Jim Crow. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z We set an example for our fellow faction members, and soon the three of us are engulfed in the mass of gray fabric ascending cement stairs in the half light. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z They blink in confusion and terror at a mass of flaming candles on their Slammer cake, perhaps more candles than they’ve ever seen on one of their own birthday cakes. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The Gryffindor table, a solid mass of red and gold, cheered as Harry and Ron approached. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z The forces on the wires are proportional to their masses, which are proportional to their lengths. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z But protesters rejoiced in a mass meeting at the Holt Street Baptist Church, a celebration tempered by the realization that they would have to keep walking at least until the city’s appeal reached Washington. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z Few legal rules meaningfully constrain the police in the drug war, and enormous financial incentives have been granted to law enforcement to engage in mass drug arrests through military-style tactics. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Just past the second landing of stone steps is an area where a large mass of shimmering rock juts out, creating a ledge. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I wonder if he’s already a part of the mass of people milling around the field. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z Maybe in a way, they just didn’t know any better, or maybe old Hitler was just able to pull off mass hypnosis or something. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z The densest tangle on the island, a mass of twisted stems, black and green and impenetrable, lay on their left and tall grass swayed before them. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z About two-thirds of the mass of the human brain is in the cerebral cortex, devoted to intuition and reason. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She put her fingers up to her face, felt the wide nose and thin bps, the too-high forehead and tangled mass of frizzy hair. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Ben started outlining plans for finding a date, but I was only half listening, because through the thickening mass of humanity crowding the hallway, I could see Margo Roth Spiegelman. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z "Not a day's ride from here, we found two Lannister scouts feeding die crows where the Freys had strung them up. Most of Lord Walder's strength remains massed at the Twins, though." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z As the draccus worked its jaw, trying to swallow the sticky mass of resin, I fumbled in my travelsack for the heavy black scale, then brought the loden-stone out from my cloak. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z If, after whatever matter it has lost to space, a star retains two or three times the mass of the Sun, it ends its life cycle in a startlingly different mode than the Sun. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly everyone surged forward, screaming and yelling, pushing through the door in a mass of bodies. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z And the possibility of mass insurrection was heightened in everyone’s mind by the riots already spreading across the country. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z After mass Titid said, “Let us sing, with true spirit, meaning what we sing.” Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Looking down, I could see them winding upward in a mass to the muffled sound of the drums. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z In the ragged hedge on the opposite side of the field the boughs of the elm trees were swaying very faintly in the breeze, their leaves just stirring in dense masses like women’s hair. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The sound met the air like a real voice, and her body had mass like a real body—though she knew it followed a looser set of rules. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z For the great masses of human beings who work and suffer and work until they die. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z What had once been a line of busy communities was now a mass of tumbledown homes and untended fields overrun by blackberries. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Each of these phases is specialized and unique, and neither India nor China nor Russia has a critical mass of talent that can handle the whole product cycle for a big American multinational. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z "But the accelerometers caught it and calculated the new center of mass. The guidance computer is adjusting the engines' thrusts to counteract. We're still good." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Alfred Sewell remembered the panic in the North Division: “Like an immense drove of panic-stricken sheep, the terrified mass ran, and rushed, and scrambled, and screamed through the streets. ...” The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z The shrimp filled up the tanks in a pulsing, squirming mass. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z They massed in great murmurations—swelling and contracting and swelling again. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z If just one of them moved, I thought, the domino effect could engulf the three of us in an asphyxiating mass of literature. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z In a little while it thickened into a smooth, quivery mass. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Harry yelled, fighting the pain of the hot metal on his skin, as Griphook clambered onto his shoulders again, determined to avoid the swelling mass of red-hot objects. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Quicker and quicker danced the dust; the moonbeams seemed to quiver as they went by me into the mass of gloom beyond. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z It is a scandal when the public learns they have broken the rules, but no rules need be broken for the systematic mass incarceration of people of color to proceed unabated. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The uncomfortable reality is that a literal war has been waged on our most vulnerable communities, and convictions for relatively minor, nonviolent offenses have propelled mass incarceration. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I would make these lives merge with the lives of the mass of mankind. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The wind gave it the appearance of flowing, although she knew it couldn’t be: a great mass of water flowing inexorably towards the houses and businesses of Jericho behind her. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z I cling to the railing and force my way through them with my elbow, not looking at their faces, like they are not human, just a wall of mass to push aside. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z A mass of snowy hair was arranged like a small sack on top of her head. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z The racial dimension of mass incarceration is its most striking feature. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I dropped my loop around him, gave it a quick yank, and lifted him, squealing and kicking, up out of the shuffling and roaring mass of hogs below. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z Nowhere had I to stand, no way of climbing, the root and bole being far below, and far above my head the branches and their leaves, massed, overshadowing Kharybdis pool. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The mass of shipping here was a catalogue of the world. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z If you died with a venial sin on your soul you could not enter heaven until the sin was absolved by prayers or rosaries or masses from your family on earth. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z At a mass meeting he said, “If I am stopped, this movement will not stop, because God is with this movement.” Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z But I sense the mass of warm bodies poised above us. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Beneath was an open space blanketed with a mass of brown pine needles. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z We had a small tree and we got clothes for presents, but the most important thing was going to visit the Nativity scene at the church and going to la misa de gallo, midnight mass. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I know now that it was the sense of being a real part of a mass of my own kind, for the first time. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z My hair hung below my hips in an unwashed mass of tangles, matted with twigs and leaves and mud. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z What I was looking at, what had turned my strong, silent dad into a weepy mass of pudding, was a stack of bills. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z In many respects, the reality of mass incarceration is easier to avoid knowing than the injustices and sufferings associated with slavery or Jim Crow. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Shivering and frightened and full of pain as he and Lyra were, they had more authority than the whole mass of the dead put together. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Off to the right a huge mass of prisoners: two hundred, maybe more. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Beyond him stood another giant man who rivaled Sigurd in sheer mass. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Dad told us what happened at the animal hospital, how the vet took Daisy for some X-rays and blood tests, then came back and told them she had a huge mass in her stomach. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z “Look, we want to make you a mass leader,” he said. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The other was fair, as fair as can be, with great wavy masses of golden hair and eyes like pale sapphires. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z The river was a heaving mass of rollers, the water dark and oily. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z At a mass meeting, King announced that, until the Supreme Court’s order arrived, “we will continue to walk and share rides with friends.” Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z Nowhere is that observation more relevant in American society today than in an analysis of the culture of mass incarceration. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He walked Seabiscuit through the masses of shouting fans to the winner’s circle. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Coach used to always have us go to mass during the season, and I guess I got in the habit.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z It was a writhing mass of pure muscle, so big its tail stuck out from beneath me, pounding hard against the raft. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Here and there under the dirt there were the red scars of wounds, and near the ankle the varicose ulcer was an inflamed mass with flakes of skin peeling off it. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Exactly how much uranium was needed to form a critical mass? Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Well, some people, a few, went to early six o’clock mass. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The new mass of knowledge is still formless, incomplete, lacking the essential threads of connection, displaying misleading signals at every turn, riddled with blind alleys. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z His personal life was impeccable—of a puritanism unattainable for the mass. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z But the press and the Princeton study painted a picture of nationwide mass hysteria. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z In a mass protest decades ago, thirty-one prisoners cut their Achilles tendons, lest they be sent again to work. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z She had heard stories of scythes who did mass gleanings, but until now she thought they were nothing but stories. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z One side of his head was a mass of blood. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Other episodes of mass fatality are abundantly documented: the Black Death in Europe, the post-collectivization famine in the Soviet Union, even the traffic in African slaves. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The congregation at evening mass looked more tired than on Sunday morning. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z It was frightening to think of missing mass on Sunday, then dying, and for that one mortal sin to go to hell forever. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z With her eyes almost closed she could see Theodora only as a mass of color sitting on the floor. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z As it skids down the steep, irregular terrain in fits and starts, the mass of ice splinters into a jumble of huge, tottering blocks called seracs, some as large as office buildings. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z “Unless progress is made on a daily basis,” they told him, “we cannot promise that mass demonstrations will not resume at any time.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z A black hole with a mass a few times that of the sun would have a temperature of only one ten millionth of a degree above absolute zero. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Nollywood is really public theater, and if you understand it like that, then it is more tolerable. It’s for public consumption, even mass participation, not the kind of individual experience that film is.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z It has islands the size of countries and masses of floating vegetation the size of islands. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I walk up the three steps to the altar and step over the small railing that separates the masses from all that is sacred. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z It was a select group, an elite group, a great number of us being Fort Hare graduates; we were far from a mass movement. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The ashes were a gray, rubbled mass that didn’t even fill the box. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Whites and blacks massed at the beach after Eugene Williams was hit by a rock and drowned. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z But of all that Michell accomplished, nothing was more ingenious or had greater impact than a machine he designed and built for measuring the mass of the Earth. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Maybe they were looking for a weapon of mass destruction, but all I had was a T-shirt, Right Guard deodorant, and a pair of shorts. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z I knew she was no match for him in that tangled mass of limbs and logs. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The varsity jackets tended to blend into one big mass. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z He lifted the brick again and again, until in falling it struck a sodden mass that gave softly but stoudy to each landing blow. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z And the black masses in America were—and still are—having a nightmare. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z They pronounced a litany of names to the mass of snakes. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The men dug a mass grave in the forest, and the bodies were buried with as many of the proper ceremonies as possible. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He made a simple cross knot in the lace, again and again, until it became a big mass of chaos that I’d never be able to undo. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Inside was a green and yellow hardened mass. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z There may be some laws about this kind of communication, mandating a critical density and mass before it can function with efficiency. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z For a moment Seth thought he saw something swirling in the darkness at the edge of the light, a whirling mass of silky black fabric. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Laila knew that somewhere in the city someone had just died, and that a pall of black smoke was hovering over some building that had collapsed in a puffing mass of dust. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Now he could see: masses of gray rock wreathed in smoke, gray men moving. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z As we come closer to the main town square, the crowds grow even more packed, a solid mass of people. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Pm nearly eighty-seven,” said Millard with his mouth full of goose drippings, and as he spoke a half-chewed mass quavered in his invisible jaw for all to see. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Tree-ear scowled to see the misshapen masses of clay in his cart, so different from the neat rectangles of the other workers. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z He knows that by spring, this mass of blood and guts and feathers will become a rich, black, sweet-smelling compost ready for him to spread onto the pastures and turn back into grass. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Instead of a dust-cloud well out in the desert he now saw a black, moving mass, rather like ants, on the far bank of the Winding Arrow. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z And when the rescuers ran out of drift-wood, they buried the rest in mass graves. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z It was still early morning as we drove towards Salcedo for the first mass. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Described below are a number of the other important differences between Jim Crow and mass incarceration. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The subsequent failure of the American Colonization Society and the combination of logistical and economic difficulties in the colony of Liberia exposed the impracticality of any mass migration back to Africa. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z My vision is so accustomed to a shifting horizon, to the metamorphoses of ocean and clouds, that to see such a mass of rock, immovable against the sky, was astonishing. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he let readers relive the mass flight from the city, see the closed shops and empty streets, and meet suffering fever victims and those who bravely stayed to help them. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Hazel put her backpack down, grabbed a thick stick, and poked the mass. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z While mass action had become less frequent after the turn of the century, individual rebellions remained common. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z In the summer of 2004, in the largest single mass defection, South Korea flew 468 North Koreans from Vietnam to Seoul. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z There was not one person in the crowd who did not realize that they had overcome Caesar’s strongest intentions, that their mass will had triumphed. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z “He could totally be one of those mass murderers that you hear about when they interview the neighbors and they’re like ‘Oh, he was always quiet. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z Those who wanted to participate launched mass demonstrations and strikes, which soon spread to the Bophuthatswana civil service. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z This book argues that mass incarceration is, metaphorically, the New Jim Crow and that all those who care about social justice should fully commit themselves to dismantling this new racial caste system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z By the time I was belly deep, my skin was a mass of goose bumps, but it didn’t bother me the way it once would have. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z The land mass of Texas is rich in recoverable spoil. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Nobody knows how many rebellions besides political rebellions ferment in the masses of life which people earth. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z The kings and priests of ancient Sumer wanted writing to be used by professional scribes to record numbers of sheep owed in taxes, not by the masses to write poetry and hatch plots. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The ruins continued under her feet Out here they were almost completely submerged, only a few shapeless masses rising through the grasp of vegetation. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z It was essentially just a confusing mass of numbers, but Hutton noticed that if he used a pencil to connect points of equal height, it all became much more orderly. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z I would awaken to the sound of garage doors creaking open and know without thinking that it was Friday and that my father was on his way to six-thirty mass. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Less than two years later, Fudge had erupted out of the fire yet again, this time with the news that there had been a mass breakout from Azkaban. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z He was kind of a fixture around here, an outspoken guy with a big personality and this mass of wild white-boy dreadlocks. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I bent over, pushing my nose into the mass of curls on her head. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z He had resisted all ideas of mass emigration and enforced complete isolation on the warren, thereby almost certainly saving it from extinction. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Through a clearing in the swirling mass, a cluster of stars could be seen. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The church bazaars would leave the air redolent, smoky from mass cooking. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z His nose was flat and his face was broad; his head was a mass of wiry gray hair. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he’s already nodding farewell, passing us by with his entourage, bodyguards, and a trailing, screaming mass of fans. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z W+, W~, and Z° would acquire large masses, making the forces they carry have a very short range. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The bloated moon lurked above the tangled mass of branches. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z The MIA network was unveiled in detail at a mass meeting on December 12. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z Dr. C. Eric Lincoln’s book was published amid widening controversy about us Muslims, at just about the time we were starting to put on our first big mass rallies. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Almost every day and sometimes all day, the mass meetings at Old South Church went on. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z But Carrel wasn’t interested in immortality for the masses. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z And Harry dived after Dumbledore through the shifting silver mass, landing in the very office he had just left. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z But even to pose that question is to illustrate the gap between ancient perspectives and our own expectations of mass literacy. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He’d seen a fisher hang up and sink on the old struts when it had run itself into the whole mass of towers and then been unable to win free. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z As we begin to cut through the mass of elbows and shoulders, Roshan hands me a drink. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The handful of millennia separating the Agricultural Revolution from the appearance of cities, kingdoms and empires was not enough time to allow an instinct for mass cooperation to evolve. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The grandstand was soon so crammed that just before the race, masses of suffocating fans spilled over the fence and onto the racetrack. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z After she had eaten, Francie at last faced the fact that she had broken the fast which started at midnight and was to have lasted until after mass next morning. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Her gaze went past him, out of the window to where the snow lay in heavy masses. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z But while other priorities— health care, education—suffer, there is little evidence that this mass jailing provides either a cure for crime or a deterrent to it. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He despised the trivialization of higher education, the inflated grades and cheapened diplomas, the half education that so often passed as mass education in my generation. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z And the mass of students with their loud laughter seems rude after my Muslim friends’ kind smiles. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z For Gammas, Deltas and Epsilons had been to some extent conditioned to associate corporeal mass with social superiority. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The mass was heading toward the other end of the hallway, into what looked like the kitchen. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z The trustees’ discovery that they had unwittingly funded a weapon of mass destruction was not regarded in the boardroom as grounds for pride. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The caste system will reemerge in a new form, just as convict leasing replaced slavery, or it will be reborn, just as mass incarceration replaced Jim Crow. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Squirming through the blackout curtains was a mass of tentacles. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z However you looked at it—whatever the ijji had been, and whatever had killed them, angels or not—this mound of bones was an epic mass grave. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z In this case, it was to be a close-up shot of Adolf Hitler gazing out over the massed multitudes as they hailed him. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z From the crowded boardwalk, as far as they could see up and down the shoreline, the beaches were a dark, seething mass of bodies packed together on the sand. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z In the ragged hedge on the opposite side the boughs of the elm trees swayed just perceptibly in the breeze, and their leaves stirred faintly in dense masses like women’s hair. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z As an object approaches the speed of light, its mass rises ever more quickly, so it takes more and more energy to speed it up further. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z His face was a mass of scars, and in one hand he held a sword, short and heavy as a cleaver. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z New Hampshire’s Mount Washington is still an imposing presence, but the stony mass that rises from the New England woods today represents, at most, the stubby bottom one-third of what was ten million years ago. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The privatization of prison health care, prison commerce, and a range of services has made mass incarceration a money-making windfall for a few and a costly nightmare for the rest of us. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He would have to go over these again to put blue mass in the arteries. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z It was one of the first times that I saw that it was foolhardy to go against the masses of people. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z If we drop a small mass, the surface is deformed or puckered. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z While the mass of men went on leading thoroughly unexamined lives of monstrous consumption, Augustus Waters examined the collection of the Rijksmuseum from afar. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z The process of marking black youth as black criminals is essential to the functioning of mass incarceration as a racial caste system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Afterward Matt discovered a writhing mass of worms living in the meat, and he watched them grow and eventually turn into buzzing flies themselves. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1998 two physicists from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem showed that even a spinning or charged black hole—with a nice, ring-shaped singularity—will kill an astronaut, thanks to mass inflation. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Though only half the height of the tallest eastern pines, the chestnut had a weight and mass and symmetry that put it in another league. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The honeysuckle vines emerged in long stringers, unwoven from the mass. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z There have been five mass extinctions since jellyfish showed up on the scene. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The chauffeur took the little girl to school, where the first activity of the day was mass and obligatory communion. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The whole consciousness of my life lorn, my love lost, my hope quenched, my faith death-struck, swayed full and mighty above me in one sullen mass. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z During the next week, some workers, my brother David among them, had to exhume hundreds of bodies from the mass graves where they had been thrown and burn them. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z The drug war helped to birth this system of mass incarceration and create a vast, new undercaste. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z As he turned, the base cracked and the whole mass toppled into the sea so that, a thunderous plume of spray leapt half-way up the cliff. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Until he was five years old and had finally managed to walk in an almost normal manner, he had been a mass of bruises and hickeys. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In two days we would celebrate the mass of the dead, and after mass we would take her body to the cemetery in Las Pasturas for burial. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Out of the chattering mass of bodies, Diana rose from her chair in the corner and came to where Lyddie stood. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z My interpretation of the definitions of specific impulse and mass ratio especially seemed to impress him. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Lifting, dropping, lifting, dropping—by the time the drum cuts out and the trombone kicks in, her arms move so fast they’re a blur, her flesh an undulating, pumping mass. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Censorship, which at first covered only the mass media, was soon extended to textbooks, song lyrics, movie scripts, and even private conversation. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It has the power to heal the psychic harm and injuries that lead to aggression and violence, abuse of power, mass incarceration. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I don’t think it was equipped to handle even a fraction of the masses here. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z He lifted the bloodied mass of gray by one wing. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The day after the election, May 19, was a Sunday, and a mass meeting that had been planned for weeks was held at St. Joseph’s Church. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The yam leaves on either side of the railway track began to nod in mass consent. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Because of the equivalence of energy and mass, the energy which an object has due to its motion will add to its mass. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Our party became another shuffling unit in the shifting mass with every race on earth represented. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Once they’re a solid, dark mass, they speed off back north. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The priests assembled the tenants and the visitors in the little schoolhouse to read through the forgotten gospels and say a mass for the eternal rest of the soul of Pedro Garcia. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z By that time I’m so sick and tired of their remarks that I race to the bathroom and restore my hair to its normal mass of curls. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z “That includes the mass, too,” he put in hastily. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He proposed that an object of planetary mass, which he called a comet, was somehow generated in the Jupiter system. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Beneath the picture of black people massed in the Howard Johnson’s parking lot is the legend “The Progress.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z My comrades and I were enormously cheered; the spirit of mass protest that had seemed dormant through the 1960s was erupting in the 1970s. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Within a minute of the zeppelin’s hitting the ground it was a mass of twisted metal, a pall of smoke, and a few scraps of fluttering fire. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Cora imagined the posses massing in the woods, girding themselves for a dash into the field. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z If the universe is destined to go on expanding forever, the temperature of the microwave radiation will eventually decrease to less than that of such a black hole, which will then begin to lose mass. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The clothes were a damp mass in the washer, but it was easy to feel out the silk pieces—Bitter’s pajamas, a flowered robe, a charcoal slip dress. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Orr was a happy and unsuspecting simpleton with a thick mass of wavy polychromatic hair parted down the center. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Once a scientist chooses a suitably close distance, all the calculations using the “true” mass and charge agree with one another. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Then he stepped aside, and the black-and-white mass dissolved into fifteen individual players who came quickly onto the field. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z But so many people rush to protect the paper chain at the same time that the mass of kids bubbles through the door, carrying the three men with it. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z I wasn't trying to move mountains of injustice or fight for the equal rights of masses of people... Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z She saw the masses of jeering faces, spitting, hissing, and booing as she was tortured. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z “Karl Marx famously called religion ‘the opiate of the masses.’ Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z Before going to mass, she went into the kitchen to prepare breakfast for the family. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Galton may have despised the great unwashed masses, but they were, indisputably, great and unwashed English masses. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The deeply flawed nature of colorblindness, as a governing principle, is evidenced by the fact that the public consensus supporting mass incarceration is officially colorblind. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z An impenetrable, tangled mass swept toward Magdalys, flushed around her, and nearly toppled her as she stumbled along with them and out into the muggy Manhattan night. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Some argued that because the ANC was a mass organization made up mainly of ordinary workers, the leadership should come from those same ranks. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z There have been rumors in the village that Pa was not killed in a Khmer Rouge mass execution. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z At last there was something different—a mass of rock sticking up out of the sand about fifty yards long and thirty feet high. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z He took a deep breath and charged forward, eyes shut tight as he passed through the mass. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z We had seen videotape of this at lineup: thirty or forty seconds of inmates massing, running and stabbing, attacking and fleeing. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally they came to a mass of hanging vegetation, and the fresh smell of the world outside, and after a brief struggle they were through into the open air of the night. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Famine, war, nuclear winter, black holes, or coronal mass ejections. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z He and others in the system referred to this mass arraignment as a “cattle call.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z A black hole takes up no space at all, but it still has mass. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Addressing the mass meeting Malcolm X reportedly shouted: “I don’t advocate violence, but if a man steps on my toes, I’ll step on his.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z They grew in huge masses of pink and white and every shade of blue, fairly tumbling down the hills. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Soon two hulking masses of spirit stood on either side of Wick. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Her face was buried under a mass of curly brown hair. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z He would like to have a pair of scissors and cut this hair he flung the mass back cut this filthy hair right back to half an inch. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z The common room looked strange, full of people wearing different colors instead of the usual mass of black. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z On one page she saw a list of headings: exchange controls, rationing, the mass evacuation of large towns, the conscription of labor. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The greater the local mass, the more intense the local gravity, and the more severe the pucker, distortion or warp of space. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, we reached a wide square where the carnival was in full, rollicking swing, packed with masses of people and brightly colored tents and more activity than my eyes could take in at once. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z But Sullivan laced his 1924 autobiography with hyperbolic attacks on Burnham and the fair’s impact on the masses who came through its gates. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z This has no mass of its own, so the force that it carries is long range. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z A first photograph, somewhat overexposed, is taken by Dr. Gupta that broiling hot, late summer’s day: Gogol, an indistinct blanketed mass, reposing in his weary mother’s arms. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I say ‘more remarkable’, for it is discovery itself which has transformed our world, in a way that simply locating a new land mass could never do. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z During high mass, her sister and father recited the Lord’s Prayer with loud precision and clung forever to the last syllables of the hymns. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Every day, the Sisters came into her cell unannounced and clucked their tongues at the masses of paper in the room. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z She came in from mass that morning with a look of triumph. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Increasingly, the nation’s richest are spending their money on personal services or exclusive experiences and isolating themselves from the masses in ways that go beyond building gated walls. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z They wouldn’t try to defend the beaches, but would wait instead until the Marines were massed in front of them and then fire from cover. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “Close. It’s the Ring Nebula. The ring is the ejected shell of a star’s outer mass.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z It was not the responsibility, or the pain, or the patients, or the politics, or the masses of information tumbling and reeling in her head like cars on a circus ride. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z And these were monsters, rearing to the sky, massed like a battalion, too beautiful I thought, too powerful, they were not plants at all. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The yard was so massed with tall privets that he couldn’t see much of the house. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Baba and I look across the masses sleeping in the open air. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z The structure of mass incarceration is described in some detail in chapter 2, with a focus on the War on Drugs. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Because of my weight and my big mass of curly hair that the kids made fun of, and because I was younger than the others, I was an easy target for Addison. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z If you doubt this is the case, consider the sheer scale of mass incarceration. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z If one high-end product has slipped into the mass market, then a new one will have to take its place at the top. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Despite these important efforts, what is most striking about the civil rights community’s response to the mass incarceration of people of color is the relative quiet. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z If some spark does set the keg afire, it will be a senseless tragedy of ignorant against ignorant, injustice answering injustice—a holocaust that will drag down the innocent and right-thinking masses of human beings. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z A few, who intended to go over to the Chênière for mass, were moving about. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z Had the bolas come in massed, coordinated onslaughts instead of being wielded by individual soldiers as they thought opportune, Pizarro might well have met his match. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Erilea needed the King’s Champion to be someone who understood the suffering of the masses. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z In its place came empty discussions about matters that had no practical connection with the desperate needs of the masses of Jews. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z The black masses prefer the company of their own kind. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Cleotilde pushed at her hair, a mass of tight coils, and adjusted her glasses, as though first preparing herself before she presented her passport and license. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z In those days, when mass communication for Africans was primitive or nonexistent, politics were parochial. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The fabric of the island seemed to be an intricate, tightly webbed mass of tube-shaped seaweed, in diameter a little thicker than two fingers. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Sadly, like the racial caste systems that preceded it, the system of mass incarceration now seems normal and natural to most, a regrettable necessity. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The dispersed figures had come together on the sand and were a dense black mass that revolved. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Neutrons don’t influence an atom’s identity, but they do add to its mass. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Further panic swelled through the mass of people on the stairs. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Our mass rallies, from their very beginning, were astounding successes. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z She and the driver helped a crumpled mass of moaning blue serge to alight. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z She did not see birds or seaweed, but she felt the mass of a continent. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Three days later, when she returned complaining once again of pain, a doctor pressed on her abdomen and felt a “stony hard” mass. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Beneath that mass of pale grey stone, the encircling army of Lord Stannis Baratheon looked as small and insignificant as mice with banners. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The Crochan still squatted where it had been; Taran made out the dark, brooding mass, and it seemed to him, in a flare of horror, that its mouth gaped greedily. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z The spiders seemed to multiply like magic, growing and pulsating into an intangible mass. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z A few steps away, the Governor stood staring at the mass of illuminated bodies. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Down and down they rushed, first through darkness and then through a mass of vague and whirling shapes which might have been almost anything. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z Shortly before the scheduled removal, a special mass meeting was planned for Freedom Square. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I was literally overwhelmed when, in reading the works of Russian revolutionists, I came across descriptions of the “holiday energies of the masses,” “the locomotives of history,” “the conditions prerequisite for revolution,” and so Forth. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z “You really do look like the poor masses.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Yes, there they were, blood-red and luscious, as I had seen them the evening before, great bushes of them, massed beneath the open window, encroaching on to the sweep of the drive itself. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Trees rose as ghostly masses in the diffused light. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Pitzer led diem down the grass, pointed to a flat space just above the road, the masses of guns and wagons, in plain sight of the headquarters. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Jim Crow and mass incarceration have similar political origins. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The bilingualists insist that a student should be reminded of his difference from others in mass society, his heritage. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The whole mass of them swayed side to side, like the tall grass around the kolba when the breeze swept across the clearing. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z The student body was, for the most part, a homogenous mass of about two thousand people who were apparently in love with basketball. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z In a time in America when it was of arch importance for a militant black voice to reach mass audiences, Life magazine wanted to do a personal story of me, and I refused. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z In the era of mass lynching, it was so difficult to find who, specifically, served as executioner that such deaths were often reported by the press as having happened “at the hands of persons unknown.” Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z These pairs would have an infinite amount of energy and, therefore, by Einstein’s famous equation E = me2, they would have an infinite amount of mass. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “We had this huge mass of regulation and controls and bureaucracy,” he recalled. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z In the old Latin mass my mother could recite her rosary while still being at one with prayer at the altar. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Like the mass of cables drooping behind a desk, the conceptual connections from one sentence to another have a tendency to get gnarled up in a big, snaggly tangle. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Rather, they stood in what appeared to be a dense mass of vegetation, as sparkling green as the leaves. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Was that scorched mass in the corner her bed? When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z If he had put out fifty of them it would have been a fortune, but Lee was a humble man who didn’t care for mass production. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z How ignominious to be strapped to this ponderous mass of paper, print and dead man's sentiment. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z A concentrated, pulsing mass of ships and avatars covered the ground and filled the air. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The remaining hullbeasts leaned back and belched forth a mass of brand flies. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Because He caused thousands of children to burn in His mass graves? Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Going down the streets in the morning on the way to mass in the cathedral, I heard them singing through the open doors of the shops. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z His mouth had swollen into a shapeless cherry-colored mass with a black hole in the middle of it. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z You become compressed in the direction of motion, your mass increases, and time, as you experience it, slows down, a breathtaking consequence of traveling close to the speed of light called time dilation. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps half the mass of the Sun will be lost in this way. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z At a mass rally at a stadium in Soweto, hundreds of dignitaries from foreign governments gathered to pay their respects to the man who kept the ANC alive during its years of exile. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I showed up, I did the work, I dealt with the dependable, unrelenting microaggressions from the masses that influenced the emotional weather patterns of my day. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z What opinions the masses hold, or do not hold, is looked on as a matter of indifference. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Dogs and men all went head over heels in a mass of howling confusion. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z I’ve talked with other public speakers; they agree that this ability is native to any person who has the “mass appeal” gift, who can get through to and move people. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The shape of his face was Eastern European, and he had a thick mass of curly gray hair. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z “They spurred their horses and rode at a run into the retreating mass,” reported Reed. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z No one visiting the website would learn that the mass incarceration of African Americans had already eviscerated many of the hard-earned gains it urged its members to protect. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z All the land masses of all the other parts of the earth would easily fit in it with water left over. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z At our meeting, we told him that we intended to organize a Youth League and a campaign of action designed to mobilize mass support. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The fear of serious mass rioting set off by some unpredictable spark hung steadily in the air. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The enormity of it, the weight of the line, was a mass too great to express. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s not just mass extinctions that wipe out species, either. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Just an angry mass of red flesh where the face had been. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z As I gingerly stepped toward him the shuffling mass of black cowhide between us parted, and there stood 534 and I, staring dumbly at each other. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Johnson put on a surgical scrub suit and rubber gloves, and carried the box into the Level 3 staging area of the Ebola suite, where he opened the box, revealing a mass of foam peanuts. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z At night a tremendous mass meeting was held in the Auditorium, where a bronze tablet which had been inscribed to her memory was unveiled. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z In the previous four months, I’d paid visits to people who’d survived mass shootings at a movie theater in Colorado and inside a Sikh temple in Wisconsin. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z All racial caste systems, not just mass incarceration, have been supported by racial indifference. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The watchers below could see the chocolate swishing around the boy in the pipe, and they could see it building up behind him in a solid mass, pushing against the blockage. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z The Triton pond rose before them, an inky mass whose complicated outline was honed against a sky turning greener as the light fell. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I was impressed by the modem schools, housing developments for the masses, and the highways and the industrialization that I saw. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The nucleus of an atom is tiny–only one millionth of a billionth of the full volume of the atom–but fantastically dense, since it contains virtually all the atom’s mass. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “Prison stew,” he’d sniff, coming back a few minutes later to help himself before the masses devoured it. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Those who claim that mass incarceration is “just like” Jim Crow make a serious mistake. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Thomson proposed a structural model for the atom in which his negatively charged electrons were suspended within an undifferentiated positively charged mass, like bits of fruit within a soft custard. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Few Americans today recognize mass incarceration for what it is: a new caste system thinly veiled by the cloak of colorblindness. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z But Culebra was in full swing when Sierra walked in, and instead of the usual laid-back El Mar scene, a sweaty mass of punks, teenyboppers, and hipsters pulsed and churned to the music. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Her only outings were her weekly trips to Sunday mass at the Church of Saint Sebastian, which was two blocks from her house, whence she was conveyed in a wheelchair by Ferula and the maid. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z If we truly want to end violence in our communities, we must come to understand, as discussed in the final chapter, the ways in which mass incarceration increases—not decreases—violence and multiplies its harms. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Inevitably a new system of racialized social control will emerge—one that we cannot foresee, just as the current system of mass incarceration was not predicted by anyone thirty years ago. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Remarkably, even in communities devastated by mass incarceration, many people struggling to cope with the stigma of imprisonment have no idea that their neighbors are struggling with the same grief, shame, and isolation. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z His sandy hair, considerably longer than it had been when they dropped in, was lighter now; and his bare back was a mass of dark freckles and peeling sunburn. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z She dragged the mass of twigs and branches further up on land, then ran to call her mother. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Here was the place he had described, where suddenly, in this massed section of boulders, was a rift, a deep gap in the rocks, a place where she must jump to the next foothold. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I will continue to go to the English mass. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z On that particular Holy Thursday, Severo was pacing up and down the drawing room worrying about the scandal his daughter had provoked at mass. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z And now, having waged this war for decades, we claim some blacks “support” mass incarceration, as though they would rather have their young men warehoused in prison than going off to college. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Unlike ours, it seems to be empty except for a mass in the back corner, with a faint green glow. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z It is not possible to write a relatively short book that explores all aspects of the phenomenon of mass incarceration and its implications for racial justice. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The sky was dark now, the river a mass of bobbing lights. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The cart moved slowly, following the tracks that the passage of men and beasts had carved into the mass of weeds. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z This was our first event in the Transvaal, and it was necessary to have prominent figures lead the defiers, otherwise the leaders would appear to be hanging back while the masses took the punishment. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Moss watched as a few balls of paper were launched forward out of the surging mass. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z To demonstrate our strength in Natal, the ANC held a mass march through the center of Durban. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Twisting the wet cloth around the mass of sweepings, Ranofer cast about for some way to change the subject. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z As for media, it’s singular when you mean the world of mass communications, which is most of the time. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He nodded toward the cornered mass of chickens remaining in the pen. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z During the school year I was excused from class for an hour or two to serve at a funeral mass. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z My Converse squeak against the gray-and-white checkerboard vinyl floor as I follow the masses inside. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z The shapeless mass of darkness he had lifted split apart. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Before the Scientific Revolution facts were few and far between: they were handmade, bespoke rather than mass produced, they were poorly distributed, they were often unreliable. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The critical point here is that, for black men, the stigma of being a “criminal” in the era of mass incarceration is fundamentally a racial stigma. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The greater their masses, the greater their attraction. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z "No! I'm not a mass murderer, I’m a writer! I'm sure I can think of some less bloodthirsty ending." Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z “What needs to be done is to increase the volume of the cylinder with only a small amount of additional mass,” Quentin stated. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The mass was really very simple, George thought. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Chandrasekhar calculated that a cold star of more than about one and a half times the mass of the sun would not be able to support itself against its own gravity. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Mr. Lome, needless to say the Observers will meet tonight. There are private decisions to be made before the mass meeting tomorrow at nine.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Farder Coram leaned forward and gently pulled back the counterpane, and there protruding from Jacob’s shoulder was the feathered end of an arrow in a mass of clotted blood. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z That was not because chiefdoms were more kindly disposed toward defeated enemies but because the greater economic specialization of states, with more mass production and more public works, provided more uses for slave labor. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z For him it is strenuous to climb a steep hill, because he has to keep pushing his own vertical mass upward and cannot gain any momentum. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z One especially does not need an unwieldy, totally immobile mass of wires and coils spreading over twenty-five square yards. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Nobody wants to think that the rapidly expanding mass of mankind, spreading out over the surface of the earth, blackening the ground, bears any meaningful resemblance to the life of an anthill or a hive. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I let it dry the way it wants to, which is in a mass of dark curls. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z They did, however, allow for several other fates, which depend on the amount of mass in the cosmos. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z To the north, a huge mass of rock rose out of the sea—an island with cliffs at least a hundred feet tall. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z What has happened since Europeans first encountered the land masses known as North and South America? An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z They began to move, the whole Corps in mass, at slow march forward through a flat farm, a peach orchard. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z However, they will break down at the end of the black hole’s life when its mass gets very small. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I recall standing at the altar at Easter, amid candles and gold vestments, hearing the Mozart high mass. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, snowballing the rest of the clothes into one soft, conglomerate mass, she stuffed them out of sight under the bed. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z She and I didn’t go to church every Sunday, but we used to go to mass outside of Easter and Christmas. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z She peeled my sticky shirt from the mass of congealed blood. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z I touch my hair and pull one out, thankful when the weight and mass of my hair stays put. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z In the mass of people, Pa finds us a spot of unoccupied grass near the side of the road. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z If I didn't find the table-book soon, it would be a useless mass of pulp. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z The hydrogen would be used both as fuel and as reaction mass. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The mass of the sun curves space-time in such a way that although the earth follows a straight path in four-dimensional space-time, it appears to us to move along a circular orbit in three-dimensional space. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z But as the rope felt his mass, it groaned and the bamboo stakes began to tear out of the ground. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z For that reason, they fall into a different moral class than the Jewish Holocaust, which was a state policy of mass murder. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Salva looked around at the masses of people stretched out as far as he could see. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z I beat some dust off the comb and began to tease out the yellow mass of knots her hair had turned into. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Another clue that mass incarceration, as we know it, would not exist but for the race of the imagined enemy can be found in the history of drug-law enforcement in the United States. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The Algerian Ambassador impressed me as a man who was dedicated totally to militancy, and to world revolution, as the way to solve the problems of the world’s oppressed masses. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The organization addresses issues ranging from climate change to mass incarceration. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Only light, or other waves that have no intrinsic mass, can move at the speed of light. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Our racially biased system of mass incarceration exploits the fact that all people break the law and make mistakes at various points in their lives and with varying degrees of justification. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z We were standing before a giant, jubilant mass of Americans who were also palpably reflective. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Adding to the temptation to avoid race is the fact that opportunities for challenging mass incarceration on purely race-neutral grounds have never been greater. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z In June, there was a mass of graduation for the eighth-graders. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a mass of vines and blooms that twisted sinisterly in the flame but sat, docile and domestic, in the moonlight. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Many black people are confused—and the black community itself is divided—about how best to understand and respond to mass incarceration. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He kneels in the center of a thick mass of people, everyone touching everyone because one of the laws of nature is that theater people love to be touchy. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z The mass action campaign culminated in a general strike on August 3 and 4 in support of the ANC’s negotiation demands and in protest against state-supported violence. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Once, leaving mass, I was thinking so hard that I forgot my shoes, which because they were too tight, I had left under my pew. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z After a certain point is reached the numbers cease to matter, and all that remains is the faceless mass of a crowd. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z First come the scattered lights of the ships at anchor, massed at the city’s doorstep like the campfires of an invading army. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z That evening, a “mass meeting” was held at the Holt Street Baptist Church, to celebrate the day’s triumph and to plan for the future. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z Gradually the plans grew into a complicated mass of cranks and cog-wheels, covering more than half the floor, which the other animals found completely unintelligible but very impressive. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z “I have deduced that there is a relationship between these two masses that must be within certain parameters.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Not only does time change with speed, so do length and mass. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I don’t get very long to decide how I feel about being surrounded by ghosts because Elsie whoops and tugs me by the hand, behind the mass of people moving along the street. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z If I eat out at the buffet I can watch the large Mexican families or the even larger, in total body mass terms, families of Minnesota Anglos. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The clouds were beginning to mass themselves together. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z I have always believed that to be a freedom fighter one must suppress many of the personal feelings that make one feel like a separate individual rather than part of a mass movement. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I crouched down, trying to see through the tangled mass of leaves and branches. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Today, the War on Drugs has given birth to a system of mass incarceration that governs not just a small fraction of a racial or ethnic minority but entire communities of color. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z There is no broad-based movement brewing to end mass incarceration and no advocacy effort that approaches in scale the fight to preserve affirmative action. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z But he had performed a mass sacrifice of approximately fifty animals. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z His little ball mill rolled over and over; mixing the blue mass. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z This became known as the conservation of mass, and it was a revolutionary concept. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z It was like a mass grave of past lives. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z So as the black hole loses mass, its temperature and rate of emission increase, so it loses mass more quickly. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The radio a live mass of wire oozing from his trunk, a seething congregation of snakes. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z As Seabiscuit came to the paddock, Smith looked over the mass of noisy humanity and frowned. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Another woman was a devout Catholic who walked four miles with her three children to the local town for mass on Sunday. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “John! Natalie!” the voice repeated, and I turned to see Mikayla’s mom, shouldering her way through the masses, eyes trained on me. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z As much as she revered success, she detested the mass forms of communication that reported on the successful. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z I felt it, too, a black mass clogging my throat. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z I tuck my legs beneath me, adjust my mass of hair, hug my waist. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Then there were the mass demonstrations at Howard Johnson’s and downtown. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z He was more aware of that than of the great mass of leaves and branches above them. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Two stars of roughly the same mass will evolve roughly in parallel. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z At church, at the altar, there were vestments of gold and the climbing voices of a Mozart mass, tossing rings sempiternal. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I couldn’t stop seeing that woman’s face, right when she pulled the trigger, or the mass of her bloody hair that had landed near my feet. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The black masses want not to be shrank from as though they are plague- ridden. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Once outside, I plunged into the mass of people in the square, pushing and dodging to get away. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z She refuses to understand mass, she refuses to understand why atom bombs blow up. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z It would take years for many Hitler Youth to digest the truth about National Socialism: They had served a mass murderer and, in so doing, had contributed to the deaths of millions of people. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Just as Jim Crow, as a system of racial control, was dramatically different from slavery, mass incarceration is different from its predecessor. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z With a long knife Ma cut this mass into little squares, and let it stand while the curd separated from the whey. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “For half a mile along the splendid sweep of the Lake-Front men were massed a hundred deep,” the Tribune reported. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It is like the mass of humanity leaving Phnom Penh all over again, but I am alone now. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He dashed onto the track and immediately disappeared in the swirling masses of revelers. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It is a strange new kind of army, a polyglot mass of vastly dissimilar men, fighting for union. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She was a puffy, unformed mass of wool leaving something definite and fixed in her wake. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z In preparation for Monday’s hearing, the Free Mandela Com-mittee had organized a mass demonstration at the courthouse. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Julian and he were talking—in jocular, mocking, pedantic Latin—like a couple of priests tidying the vestry before a mass. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The first samples were taken from forest areas in the West where there had been mass spraying of DDT for the control of the spruce budworm. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He led them to an old, rotten stump on which a large white fungus was growing—a rounded, convoluted mass of creamy folds and wrinkles. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Along the western horizon the lower clouds formed a single purple mass, against which distant trees stood out minute and sharp. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The Governor reared his arm back, as if getting ready to hurl the enormous mass of light forward. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z The mass of people parted to let them through. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z Perhaps unnerved by the silent mass of black faces confronting him, the mayor delayed discussion on housing. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z We stayed the whole day in Salcedo, sitting in the park between masses, buying treats for the kids as bribes for the next hour-long mass. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z At one point he used his left arm to hoist himself up, and the momentum of the mass carried him forward. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Before Newton, generations of physicists had thought about phenomena such as force, acceleration, mass, and velocity. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “My keeper has found innumerable corpses, including masses of small birds — Chaffinches, Greenfinches, Linnets, Hedge Sparrows, also House Sparrows . . . the destruction of wild life is quite pitiful.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Rather than merely shunting black people to the other side of town or corralling them in ghettos, mass incarceration locks them in cages. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He also retrieved “a large charred mass, which upon being cut, disclosed a portion of the stomach, liver and spleen, baked quite hard.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I was a jangling mass of excitement as I watched other students slowly trickle into the room. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z This pattern, dating back to slavery, has birthed yet another racial caste system in the United States: mass incarceration. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The sky above Meereen was the color of corpse flesh, dull and white and heavy, a mass of unbroken cloud from horizon to horizon. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I came plowing out of the matted mass and was right on the trap before I realized it. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The Higgs boson may or may not actually exist; it was invented simply as a way of endowing particles with mass. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z There was one mass of yellow shirts dancing up and down in the crowd. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z The idea of a mass of blacks marching on Washington was originally the brainchild of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters’ A. Philip Randolph. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z My hands are smaller than his, but it’s like he’s shrinking, losing his muscle mass. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z A zero-dimensional electron has an infinite mass and charge because it is a singularity; as you get closer and closer to it, your measurements zoom off to infinity. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z This book is about getting closer to mass incarceration and extreme punishment in America. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Dressed in a cassock like a priest’s I assisted at the performance of mass on the altar. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Her words sliced through the air and the cries and shouts and grunts coming from everyone in the tangled mass of bodies fining the stairs from top to bottom went silent. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z He described it as an eroded, hard mass about the size of a nickel. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Anticipating this ruling, the army’s Western Defense Command had already announced that the mass exclusion orders of 1942 were being rescinded. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z One episode in these wars was the conquest and mass killing of Moriori tribes by Maori tribes, as described in Chapter 2. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z And other sounds came to them on the pummeling wind—the roaring beat of an engine, the creak and howl of great masses of wood being crushed together, human cries. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The companion’s mass is about ten times that of the Sun. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I knelt at the edge of my bed, hovering over Fig’s gray mass of fur, afraid of what I might find. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z The anger of the masses was unrestrained; the townships were in upheaval. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Marcia was walking around, still stunned, looking into the trays of catered food spread on the dining table, and then up at the mass of balloons bobbing against the ceiling. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Soft peaks and vaporous chasms rose or opened here and there, but mostly it looked like a solid mass of ice. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z His speeches at the mass meetings kept people walking and kept things from getting out of control. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z Cluny stooped inside the tunnel workings, surrounded by as many of his followers as could pack in without causing mass suffocation. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Joined together, the great mass of human minds around the earth seems to behave like a coherent, living system. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He looked up and I flinched—the right side of his face, up to and surrounding his right eye socket, was a mass of viney wood stems and shredded cotton. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z In a thick drawl, more ponderous than his low mass responses, the priest spoke the Latin phrases with a sonorous, dramatic discernment. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I put out my hand to feel the dark mass before me: I discriminated the rough stones of a low wall—above it, something like palisades, and within, a high and prickly hedge. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z No one wants to go to a festival to do calculations of mass and volume, except maybe Roli, who did, in fact, win last year. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z We were trapped in that stairwell, our bodies pressed against everyone else’s in one shivering mass of nerves and exhilaration. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z “Yeah, it’s great,” said Ron glumly, who was attempting to mop up the sodden mass of ink that had recently been an almost completed essay. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z We can measure their sizes and masses and so calculate their density, which tells us something about the composition of their interiors. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Harry, Ron, and Hermione stood alone, in the middle of the corridor, as silence fell among the mass of students pressing forward to see the grisly sight. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z I had no idea a mass meeting had been scheduled for that day, but a crowd of people had gathered there. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z One might wonder, what does affirmative action have to do with mass incarceration? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I joined in Padre Ignacio’s Holy Week activities, going to the nightly novenas and daily mass. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Now it was time to construct an algorithm that could tease some conclusions from this mass of data. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z It had formed a massed wall that wove around itself and clung to itself with tiny tendrils. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z The most obvious parallel between Jim Crow and mass incarceration is legalized discrimination. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z And there, in the back of the Saturn, a mass of pink and gooey stuff that had been sprayed on impact. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z In order to give particles any mass at all we have to introduce the notional Higgs boson; whether it actually exists is a matter for twenty-first-century physics. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z He wiped his mouth with the arm of his sweatshirt and stared up at the bridge, which was right in front of us now, a huge mass of steel and cement and wires. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z I see a solid mass in front of me, a body. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Operation Mayibuye sketches out in general form the plan for the possible commencement of guerrilla operations, and how it might spark a mass armed uprising against the government. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He was surrounded by a mass of people—too many to shoot. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z “Several people will be completely ruined after this evening. There’s going to be a mass exodus for Mexico City in the morning. But then Mexico City is so wonderfully wild.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He saw a lone warrior standing on a stone bridge, facing an entire army massed on the far side of the Tiber River. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z His small eyes, red-rimmed and bloodshot, were alert in the solid mass of his face. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z It empowered and spread forms of music that had developed without notation, making available to a mass audience folk and ethnic music that had up to then been confined to local communities. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Already a dense mass of people was blocking the south side of the square. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The roiling mass of fairies converged on Seth again, hauling him to the bottom of the pool amid eerie bursts of light. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Maskelyne realized that the nub of the problem lay with finding a mountain of sufficiently regular shape to judge its mass. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z I smiled back, but quickly turned and hid myself amid the mass of mourners filing out of the gym. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z Katherine has removed her hairpins so that the mass of her honeyed curls hang down her back. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z The clog bursts free, and people and animals flee together in a great squealing mass. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z The reporters massed by the railings in the press box. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z There was no need for him to ferret out the relevant experiments since Hugh had already waded through the undigested mass. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Brooklyn was a dark mass on the other side, speckled with a few flickering lanterns along the shore. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z She felt it gathering in strength, like massing thunderclouds, and then it turned its attention, abruptly, to her. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z These great masses moved steadily, noiselessly and always in the same direction. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The contamination of our world is not alone a matter of mass spraying. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The mass of animals suddenly changes direction, an interspecies flock—lions, llamas, and zebras running side by side with orangutans and chimps; a hyena shoulder to shoulder with a tiger. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z The military provided the model for the chain of command; enlisted men and women were marshaled daily by their superior officers into a battle of wills with the mass of angry and resentful prisoners. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z What they discovered were new examples of nuclear isomerism, in which isotopes of identical mass numbers and changes show dramatically different radioactive characteristics. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In due course, however, as the black circular mass around each errant—and by now dried-up—sugarwater splash grew to the size of a half-dollar, the volunteer bestirred himself into action. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z In the mirror of the bright shield he could see them clearly, creatures with great wings and bodies covered with golden scales and hair a mass of twisting snakes. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Leo stuffed it in his tool belt and the bag vanished—no weight, no mass, no volume—though Leo knew it would be there as soon as he reached for it. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z A large plate-glass window offers the Director a view of the main entrance, where I see the mass of protestors and news trucks. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Every bend in the path presents a prospect indistinguishable from every other, every glimpse into the trees the same tangled mass. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z There was no resistance, no response at all from the soft, insensitive mass, and after a while Yossarian’s spirit died and his arms dropped helplessly with exhaustion. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Its Ark was a gutted mass of charred wood, its four Torah scrolls were seared black, its holy books were piles of gray ash blown about by the wind. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Spikes popped in and out of the skin; its remaining arms swung around in mass confusion, at times impaling its own body. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z The clouds above her were massing more and more ominously. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Pilar says the pattern of coins reveals something called “Ta Kuo,” critical mass. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Booth hopes to create the illusion that Washington, D.C., is a hotbed of assassins, resulting in the sort of mass chaos that will make it easier for them all to escape. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z In a way it was like a nightmare, in which you might continue to consume huge masses of putty without being able to stop. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z However, in 1932 a colleague of Rutherford’s at Cambridge, James Chadwick, discovered that the nucleus contained another particle, called the neutron, which had almost the same mass as a proton but no electrical charge. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Each time, an obvious letter formed in the center of the crisscrossed mass of lines. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z She carried herself with what I think of as a Caribbean breeziness, a lightness of spirit that caused her to stand out among Princeton’s studious masses. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Now, masses of tired, gray people made their way slowly toward the train cars, like a group of exhausted ants marching toward a hill. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z There, with the huddled masses, she and her son are herded through cattle pens to be examined by doctors for sickness or disease. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z The monkeys explode into a shrieking mass of orange fur and converge on him. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z And dark masses of thin freshwater eels, swimming furiously in a pot. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “Where are we?” he asked, peering around at a fresh mass of trees as Hermione opened the beaded bag and began tugging out tent poles. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Food intake predicts body mass index according to a monotonically increasing relation. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Jack had backed right against the tribe and they were a solid mass of menace that bristled with spears. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z “I was very lucky to collect this,” he said, as he poured the gleaming mass into the Pensieve. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z The snow was packed into an unreadable mass. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z The most interesting of these is the prediction that protons, which make up much of the mass of ordinary matter, can spontaneously decay into lighter particles such as antielectrons. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The roadway was bordered with daisies and buttercups, pale and thin, of course, compared to the brilliant masses of color in Barbados, but pretty all the same. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z The music stopped and the guests gathered in the main hall where a small, innocent priest, adorned with the vestments of high mass, read the complicated sermon he had written exalting confused and impracticable virtues. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z A shrieking chaotic mass of boys and girls ran down the sidewalk, jumped off the stairs, clustered in groups. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z I let them fiddle with their phones as I stirred the dduk mixture, allowing my muscles to whip the flour and sugar water into a sweet, chewy mass of luck. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z It looked like masses of fat white spiders. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, scientists aren’t exactly sure, but it’s the difference between an object’s mass and the mass calculated by its gravitational effect.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z However, when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1983, it was, at least in part, for his early work on the limiting mass of cold stars. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z If the Hercules Cluster is not flying apart, there must be five times more mass there, gravitationally gluing the cluster together, than we see in its galaxies. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z For all its mass, a tree is a remarkably delicate thing. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z But I’m done, because my walking fever has reached a critical mass. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z I told the crowd in no uncertain terms that apartheid had no future in South Africa, and that the people must not let up their campaign of mass action. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z As the Germans were pushed out of the occupied towns, the liberators discovered mass graves that told silently of the horrific holocaust suffered by Belorussia’s Jewish inhabitants. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Between 1941 and 1943, it’s estimated that the commandos murdered two million people, lining them up, shooting them, and shoving them into mass graves. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z But for an elderly star left after supernova explosions and other impetuosities with more than several times the Sun’s mass, there are no forces known that can prevent collapse. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Over it hung a velvety mass of bats, which had fouled the pillar with black guano—a different kind of guano from the green slime near the mouth of the cave. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Glory instead would pass to a large mass of ego named Edwin Hubble. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Harry and Ron walked through the mass of occupied chintz chairs and poufs that cluttered the room, and sat down at the same small circular table. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z The Committee called a mass protest meeting to “defend our democratic right to hear Marian Anderson sing,” and sent out a call for telegrams supporting an Anderson concert. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z The police routinely arrested masses of people for pass violations, possession of liquor, and failure to pay the poll tax. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Thousands, maybe millions, of hungry mosquitoes massed so thickly that in one breath Salva could have ended up with a mouthful if he wasn’t careful. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z For months the small city of Selma, Alabama, had been the scene of mass meetings, protest marches, arrests, and violent confrontations between black voting rights demonstrators and white law enforcement officers. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z On Sunday, most people crowded into the eleven o’clock mass. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z If you could look long enough, you would see the swirling of the great drifts of white cloud, covering and uncovering the half-hidden masses of land. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z There were images of blue-clad soldiers marching off to war next to mass graves. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Though Stanchion was true to his word and managed to keep them all from coming at me in a mass, it wasn’t long before I began having trouble telling one from another. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Speaking from the steps of the capitol, prominent civil rights leaders and ordinary citizens recalled the turbulent events at Selma that had turned the voting rights campaign into a mass protest against racial injustice. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z The physical fitness test was set up for subjects taller, heavier, and with a greater muscle mass—in other words, men. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z Like those of us who had formed the Youth League fifteen years before, the founders of the new organization thought the ANC was insufficiently militant, out of touch with the masses, and dominated by non-Africans. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The man had his back to him, but he had no difficulty recognizing the Jesuit priest who had helped officiate at the funeral mass of old Pedro Garcia. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z But now more masses were coming, in clots, broken lines, red battle flags plowing through the smoke, moving this way, drifting to the left, toward the base of the hill. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The path toward Pol was clear at last, and Kaede saw that the guard’s neck was bent at an unnatural angle, and his left thigh had been torn into a mass of bloody flesh. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Father Byrnes went up to the altar, the altar bell rang and mass began. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He believed blacks had to improve their own self-image before they could initiate successful mass action. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In reality there would have been, as always, too few, except that the last act, a mass assault against suicidally-defended Japan, never took place. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z There was the aching glory in masses of clouds burning gold and purple from an invisible sun. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z They could sleep late—until late mass anyhow. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The guard who was to have removed the pedestal and drape was called outside to set up sawhorses and make orderly rows out of the mass of people. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Some anonymous person hacked into the computer systems and sent out a mass email to the entire school district’s database. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z They weren’t individual children: they were a single mass, like a tide. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The Pigeons, arriving by thousands, alighted everywhere, one above another, until solid masses as large as hogsheads were formed on the branches all round. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The field was in disarray behind him, dropping back in an undulating mass. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I was attempting to organize the campaign and practice as a lawyer at the same time, and that is no way to wage a mass campaign. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z High walls pressed close on either side, and ahead was a blank windowless mass of stone. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Behind the house the hills were piled in great pressing masses, flooded with summer green now, rich, and still. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z What is concerned here is not the morale of the masses, whose attitude is unimportant so long as they are kept steadily at work, but the morale of the Party itself. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Many felt, perhaps unfairly, that the ANC as a whole had become the preserve of a tired, unmilitant, privileged African elite more concerned with protecting their own rights than those of the masses. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z These masses of ice form glaciers that reach the edge of the continent, where every year 5,000 to 10,000 icebergs “calve,” or break off, from the ice sheets into the surrounding ocean. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z He twisted his body and tried to spin out of the mass, gripping the Transvice with both hands to swing it left and right to get people away from him. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z The morning after her visit, we stopped at the pharmacy on the way back from daily mass. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I turn around to see a short redheaded girl with masses of freckles bobbing toward us with her tray. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z I couldn’t wait to open my presents, but Mom insisted that we celebrate Christmas in the Catholic fashion, getting to the gifts only after we’d attended midnight mass. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z But there was no sign of Lexie, even when she fought her way through the pulsating mass of bodies in the living room. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z When King started the 1956 Birmingham bus boycott, Moore had urged his friend to take the action nationwide, but King was not prepared to lead a mass movement at the time. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z But once you see them as a whole, once your eyes leave the individual and encompass the mass, a new quality comes into the picture. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z It was Newton who realized that the pull of any two objects is, to quote Feynman again, "proportional to the mass of each and varies inversely as the square of the distance between them." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The term American, like the term democrat, began as an epithet, the former referring to an inferior, provincial creature, the latter to one who panders to the crude and mindless whims of the masses. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z They squeeze under the door, a mass of rats escaping a flood. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Seconds later, he saw an enormous black mass coming at him and the train. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z I fished into my pocket for my handkerchief, but my pocket was a mass of mud. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The problem is when you get a big mass of water coming down off the hills, it’s held up by the riverbed not being deep enough, and it spreads out instead.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Celosia reminded me of enormous celery stalks with a mass of red brains on top. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z That night, Annabelle lies in bed and listens to the rumble of distant thunder as Saint Christopher swings over her head ominously, like a vial of incense during mass. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Seabiscuit rolled in, the fans massing by the sides of his van like snowdrifts. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Gradually the black mass had lengthened and thickened, so that it kept at last to its braided pattern, and I didn’t have to yank my scalp off when I tried to comb it. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z At the center of each is a mass of honeyed raisins and nuts, their sweetness enough to bring tears to my eyes. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z An electric atmosphere excited the great, shifting masses of black people. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Detroit has already seen a peaceful massing of more than a hundred thousand blacks—think about that. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Many early states and all modern ones have had literate elites, and many modern states have literate masses as well. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In Chicago, like the rest of the country, the War on Drugs is an engine of mass incarceration, as well as a major cause of gross racial disparities throughout the system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I was sure it was just about his body mass index or the tensile strength of his ligaments, but still, he had her ear and he wasn’t using it to talk me up. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “Nice man, kinda old. I seen him around the neighborhood before taking some little kids to mass. I think they his granchirren.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In engineering parlance, it embodied little “dead load,” the static weight of immobile masses of brick and steel. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It was the fourth mass killing of ANC people that week. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z At the same time, we did not want to give up on the important public policies and activities that brought the ANC attention and mass support. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And white feminists refer to their mass union of ‘sisters.’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z These studies indicate that the biggest problem the black community may face today is not “shamelessness” but rather the severe isolation, distrust, and alienation created by mass incarceration. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z If Longstreet’s spy was right and there had been masses of cavalry ahead, what the blue cavalry could do to his packed troops . The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She had a mass of faded yellow hair unbecomingly arranged in a large bun, wore glasses, and had a long, mild, amiable face rather like a sheep. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z “His men have seen fires in the mountains on the far side of the Gorge. Wildlings massing, Ser Denys believes. He thinks they are going to try to force the Bridge of Skulls again.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I followed Hugh into the mass migration of students heading out of the building at eleven fifteen. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z We never saw more than a quarter-mile ahead through the gray mist and mass of rain. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z I’m just about to text back when it dawns on me that the person I’m texting could be a mass murderer or something. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Every Sunday in summer someone fainted from heat, had to be carried out, but the mass went on. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z There was something coldly omnivorous in the massing of planes; it was like the gathering of sharks at a bloodspill. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The black-and-white mass of players behind the rabbi stood very still, waiting. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z I peered around the corner and saw them massing in two huge piles, evidently on top of inmates. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It is frequently argued in defense of mass incarceration that African Americans want more police and more prisons because crime is so bad in some ghetto communities. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The collateral consequences of mass incarceration have been equally profound. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Not when that half-ton has to be a mass of condensers, circuits, relays, and vacuum cells that can handle practically any psychological reaction known to humans. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z I sobbed as I lay on the pillow, my hair a mass of mud and silt. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z At that very moment, more than a quarter million Chinese soldiers massed on the Chinese side of the Yalu, preparing a surprise attack in support of their Communist neighbor. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z No wonder the idea of learning how to talk round a large mass of people was something that Athenian aristocrats—traditionally *So named, supposedly, because it met on a big rock above Athens. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z So, as the mass progressed, my eye would wander through the crowd. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z About ten thousand people were in attendance, and I told the crowd that the Defiance Campaign would be the most powerful action ever undertaken by the oppressed masses in South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The lamassus struck first and Nergal pulled out the spear to defend himself, but he instantly vanished under a mass of frenzied big cats. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z T Ihat night, after I had weighed my fseces and recorded their mass in the book which I had been given for that purpose, I paused; I set down the chamber-pot and replaced the lid. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He showed that, provided a stationary rotating black hole had an axis of symmetry, like a spinning top, its size and shape would depend only on its mass and rate of rotation. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z And indeed, introducing classical music to the masses became something of a mission for post-war governments. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z It was rare for a witch to be jailed; only killings on a mass scale and usage of dangerous Forbidden Curses ever warranted it. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z These principles are rooted in an understanding that any movement to end mass incarceration must deal with mass incarceration as a racial caste system, not as a system of crime control. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He would have to bury his daughter in unholy ground, and without the saving grace of the mass her soul was doomed to perdition. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z They poured Karo syrup on top of the black quivering mass. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z They came down, and here and there a shock and a scream, but the masses of men lay in rows in the grass, and in the distance a band was playing. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They strolled the short distance to the mass communication building. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z As you will recall from school days, E in the equation stands for energy, m for mass, and c2 for the speed of light squared. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The mass returns quickly, filling in the spaces on each side of the narrow cordon of police. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Just as it fell around her neck in a wavy brown mass, he jerked away. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z His mass hung upon my arm, for he supported but little of his own weight. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z He sequestered Father Nicanor in the parish house under pain of execution and prohibited him from saying mass or ringing the bells unless it was for a Liberal victory. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z But there was nothing, nothing but the tumbling dark mass of the woods just discernible against the grayish-blue of the western sky. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The many parallels between mass incarceration and Jim Crow are explored in chapter 5. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z "The VAL is in the nose. Escaping air would make a thrust vector through our center of mass. We just need to point the ship directly away from where we want to go." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z A third will weigh each, announce its mass, and pass it to von Rumpel, who will examine the stone through a loupe and call out the clarity—Included, Slightly Included, Almost Loupe- Clean. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z It was large and four-sided, and it sat atop a mass grave. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z But as he made his way through the rows of cars, a dark mass leaped from behind a tire and slithered right between his wobbly legs. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Now they were going down, to blend into the mass below. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Making them bigger makes them take less mass per kilowatt hour of storage. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, that’s all right, then,” quipped Holly, threading her way through the mass of wires. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z The Abbey creatures fell silent and drifted away from the heap of stones which blocked the hole, a fitting headstone for a mass grave of the enemy. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z At once they came, waves of them, one after another, and they labored separating and dividing, until what had been a confused mass lay all ordered, every seed with its kind. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Those who believe that advocacy challenging mass incarceration can be successful without overturning the public consensus that gave rise to it are engaging in fanciful thinking, a form of denial. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The system of mass incarceration is now, for all practical purposes, thoroughly immunized from claims of racial bias. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Let me impale her, end her voyage, and end all ocean-crossing with passengers, then heave a mass of mountain in a ring around the city.” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Jack lifted his head and stared at the inscrutable masses of creeper that lay across the trail. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z There were clouds again and it was very dark, but Chamberlain could see a hill in front of him and masses of troops and tents ahead. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z If there had been no nooses hanging from a schoolyard tree, there would have been no Jena 6—no mass protests, no live coverage on CNN. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Du Bois praised and embraced Washington’s emphasis on “thrift, patience, and industrial training for the masses,” but sharply disagreed with his public acceptance of segregation, disenfranchisement, and legalized discrimination. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Cold air masses sliding down the sides of the glaciers speed up until they become winds of close to 200 miles per hour. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z But they affected the unlearned masses worst of all. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Others tried to push him; some from below swatted at him, grabbed his legs, trying to pull him into the seething mass of bodies. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Buckley led Bigger to a window through which he looked and saw the streets below crowded with masses of people in all directions. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z With the hatchet I hacked off a large mass of algae and worked a rope through it, which I tied to the boat. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Navy ships massed offshore, and desperate Vietnamese headed for them in small boats. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z The red mass shivered as she waved it around, inching out over the edge of the container when she squeezed it a bit too tight. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z I must have knelt there for at least fifteen more minutes before mass started and I had to join Mamá and my sisters at their seats. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z At once the fire thrower was relit and hauled around to face the shore, and the mass of flame shot upward and then cascaded in a hundred spilling gouts over the rooftops. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z As people filed out after normal mass, Father Samuel asked us to move up to the first few rows of benches. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z The mound, a marvel of solidity for a decade, was uprooted whole and began to shudder along in one murderous mass. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z By the time the Lost Girls returned to the beach, the sky was the color of wet slate and an army of angry clouds massed along the horizon, awaiting further instruction. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Thus the students already at risk, already suffering, have become suspects, linked in various thoughtless ways to mass murder and—consequently—more alienated than before. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Maman and Auntie had kept me home from mass and were sitting on either side of me like jailers. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Then suddenly into his hand fell a mass of jewels and Waftg Lung gazed at them stupefied. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z The most startling of these, a thing without precedent, is a mass of undignified poor. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z But never before had nonviolence been employed for a mass movement. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z That idea escalates to its macabre zenith in Nazi Germany in the 1940s, where human eugenics is used to justify grotesque experiments, culminating in confinement, sterilization, euthanasia, and mass murder. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Newton acquired a mass of material intended to establish this peculiar thesis. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z A mass exodus from North Korea could substantially depopulate the country, undermine its already inadequate capacity to grow food, and weaken—or perhaps even topple—the gov-ernment. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “I’ve spent all my life defending this family, but nobody ever stops to think what the people will say or that Father Kenneth will call me aside after mass to speak with me.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z He was touched by the plight of the masses as a whole and by each and every individual. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Pender’s Division was on the move; he heard the great scream of the massed Rebel yells. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I can’t believe she came to the funeral mass with her girls, adding four more slaps to her big blow. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Which means that in the suburbs and exurbs it’s hard to generate the critical mass needed to ignite truly bad behavior. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z How do You compare to this stricken mass gathered to affirm to You their faith, their anger, their defiance? Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z She reestablished Sunday mass, suspended the use of red armbands, and abrogated the harebrained decrees. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z All of that immense mass of flesh and bone and consciousness will disappear by absorption into the earth, without recognition by the transient survivors. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z When the Sun passes through a spiral arm it is more likely than it is at present to enter into gaseous nebulae and interstellar dust clouds and to encounter objects of substellar mass. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The fluctuation in the energy in the vacuum is the same thing as a fluctuation in the amount of mass. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z A man disentangled himself from the black-and-white mass of players and took a step forward. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z The great mass of American citizens estimates us as being a characterless and purposeless people; and hence we hold up our heads, if at all, against the withering influence of a nation’s scorn and contempt. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z In the compressed mass of people, I find his hand and squeeze it. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z So from this one experiment we learned the masses of the Earth, the Sun, the Moon, the other planets and their moons, and got contour lines into the bargain–not bad for a summer’s work. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The ceiling was thick with cobwebs, the floor coated in grime; moldy and rotting food lay upon the table amidst a mass of crusted pots. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z David Braman’s ethnographic research shows that mass incarceration, far from reducing the stigma associated with criminality, actually creates a deep silence in communities of color, one rooted in shame. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The eejits, of course, were buried in mass graves out in the desert. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Saying that mass incarceration is the New Jim Crow can leave a misimpression. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The fire thrower worked again: this time a mass of blazing sulfur hurtled directly upward to strike the gondola and burst in a cascade of flaming fragments on all sides. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z I had long argued that Communist literature was, for the most part, dull, esoteric, and Western-centered, but ought to be simple, clear, and relevant to the African masses. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Both Riverrun and easterly Rock had called their banners, and armies were massing in the pass below the Golden Tooth. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z It was the most amazing mass of wealth that any of them had ever seen. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z The odd design of the place, with its high windows and box-like mass, now appears futuristic and forward- thinking. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Could not the same speech be given about mass incarceration today? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Black ministers would be arrested if they allowed mass meetings to be held at their churches. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z The small voices were massing together, getting closer. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Thomas’s discouragement grew with every toss, until it turned into a heavy mass of blah. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z “We condition the masses to hate the country,” concluded the Director. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The Youth League drafted a Program of Action, the cornerstone of which was a campaign of mass mobilization. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Her bun was a mass of wild curls, but not in the unkempt way she usually saw it in the mirror. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z He sees a chunk of hair and meaty mass on one of the handrails. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z “I fear the ratio of the mass of propellant added compared to the mass of the empty rocket will be too small,” he said. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z After the German army had passed through an area, the commandos rounded up the Jews and herded them to the outskirts of town, where they were forced to dig mass graves. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z To a physicist, mass and weight are two quite different things. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z But what Everest lacks in architectural grace, it makes up for with sheer, overwhelming mass. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z There were many people at the eleven o'clock mass. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Mr. Dandy looked around, his forehead a slash, his body a mass of indecision and rage. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z And the army never learned to bunch its troops into tight formations, as the Greeks did at Marathon, forming human masses that can literally stand up to cavalry. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Nately stared at her covertly from his over-stuffed yellow armchair, marveling at the bored, phlegmatic strength with which she accepted the mass rejection. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z And revealed through the trees is HOGWARTS—a splendid mass of bulbous buildings and towers. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z When the prisoners were released, the NWP staged a huge mass meeting in Washington, DC, to honor the women who had served time in jail. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z I was to keep ever before them the picture of a bright, passive, good-humored, receptive mass ever willing to accept their every scheme. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z There was no sun, only a mass of thick grey cloud, lowering over the countryside, and still, close, thundery air. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z But if we do so, we should labor under no illusions that we will end mass incarceration or shake the foundations of the current racial order. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z In the morning the island was gone, as was the mass of algae we had been towing. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Meaning the bulky, fuzzy mass that was too big to be his head ... was his head. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z He glanced back apprehensively, half expecting to find the limp white things crawling after him in sightless pursuit or snaking up through the treetops in a writhing and ungovernable mutative mass. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Today, most Americans know and don’t know the truth about mass incarceration. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The mob—the crowd—the mass—will arrive then. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z It had all cleared up suddenly afterward, but at that unique moment, my face was a mass of cherry-red—and cherry-size—zits. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z After mass, long after the priest’s words stopped echoing against the cement walls, she remained in church, inspecting the pews for forgotten veils or rosary beads. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The black gaps between silver links would close until the fishermen could see, below, a solid mass of silver spinning. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z The problem with this abbreviated analysis is that violent crime is not responsible for mass incarceration. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The second stage was envisioned as mass defiance, accompanied by strikes and industrial actions across the country. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Chamberlain could feel the massed power; it was like being near great barrels of gunpowder. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z In order to forestall outbreaks of retaliatory violence, we arranged a week-long series of mass rallies and demonstrations throughout the country. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z From this height they looked like insects, eagerly massed at the entrance of a bug trap. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z She rarely goes to mass, but she’s got the required crucifix over the kitchen doorway, the rosary in the dresser drawer, and the stack of dead relatives’ funeral cards, held together with a rubber band. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Thanks to their mass ticket-buying, the first ten rows of the venue were mostly empty. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z The black mass of cowhide moved toward the trough for lunch. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The cute chipmunk on the front cover gives way to a mass of fur and bloody entrails inside, making you think twice about investing in that fur coat. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z The term mass incarceration refers not only to the criminal justice system but also to the larger web of laws, rules, policies, and customs that control those labeled criminals both in and out of prison. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The morning bell rang and the mass of students in the school yard formed into a series of lines. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z The crowd roars in delight as a great gray mass passes the edge of the risers. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z The explosives would blast the plutonium together at tremendous speed, creating a critical mass and setting off a chain reaction— and an atomic explosion. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Body mass index is an increasing function of food intake. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Inside it, James could see a mass of tiny green things that looked like little stones or crystals, each one about the size of a grain of rice. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z Each week, they dug new mass graves behind the refining sheds. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Straight-backed and severe, revolvers strapped to their belts, they moved with tranquil authority through the mass of somber battle dress and grimy faces, looking from side to side as if conducting a count. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z For decades, the Princeton study was cited as evidence that the Halloween broadcast caused mass hysteria. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z The opening mass meeting was being held at Carnegie Hall. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, we just got out of Abuela’s funeral mass, so...not great.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z The clenched mass of nerves in my stomach eased at the touch, and I felt what few suspicions I had left about him unwinding. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The extra gravitational attraction of such a large number of black holes could explain why our galaxy rotates at the rate it does: the mass of the visible stars is insufficient to account for this. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z After witnessing a mass shooting, Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS, decided that guns wasted too much time and too many bullets. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z No mention was made of the War on Drugs or mass incarceration. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z In church, Christmas began at midnight mass, Christmas Eve. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The military band was playing and the crowd was massed on the far side of the square where the fireworks specialist and his son were trying to send up fire balloons. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z At last, less than a mile from the City, a more ordered mass of men came into view, marching not running, still holding together. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z But it is an English mass I attend, a ritual of words. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I had never met him before except to shake his hand in line after a mass meeting. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z “Bedstraw,” she said, pointing to a tall plant massed with golden blossoms. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z If he was avoiding the critical mass of Bahramis by taking shelter in the kitchen. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Meme sensed the thought of her great-great-grandmother very well and the day after the dances she would get up earlier than usual to go to mass. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z For the rest of her days, his mother had a mass said once a month for the repose of his soul which she knew wandered about in Purgatory. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Colonel Cathcart clawed and elbowed his way through the unruly, bewildered mass until he stood outside by himself. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z However, the existence of dark matter is widely accepted because it explains the discrepancies found between the mass of large astronomical objects and their gravitational effect. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Buoyed by this example of success, thousands of new migrants massing in the city’s second ward in 1917 and 1918 took to the polls and elected two black aldermen to represent them. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z A civil war had to be waged to end slavery; a mass movement was necessary to bring a formal end to Jim Crow. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z They also warned that terrorists might target evacuation routes, creating “mass panic” and “loss of public confidence in the government.” Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z The rules about communion at Friday mass, for example, made absolutely no sense. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z A shifting black mass hung low over Manhattan. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z It was a rolling, tumbling mass of fighting fury. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z They scattered, then massed again, hovering over her like a great, undulating cloud before settling back onto the branches of the oak tree. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Sometimes it dropped out and he’d just pick up the slimy mass from wherever it was and mouth it again. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z A primordial black hole with an initial mass of a thousand million tons would have a lifetime roughly equal to the age of the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z A huge mass of bees dangled like a living piñata from the weathered chat ’n’ chew diner sign. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z The gorgonians tend to grow in closely packed, branching masses, but they do not fuse to each other; if they did, their morphogenesis would doubtless become a shambles. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The forest had changed from a collection of trees to a dark, formless mass. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Antipodes had become a reality, and there was no longer any way of fitting the Earth’s land masses into one hemisphere. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Still, it seems obvious that mass incarceration directly harms far more whites than Jim Crow ever did. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Indeed, the spread of jazz into northern and Midwestern cities had coincided with the massively increased availability of wartime factory work, which had encouraged mass black migration in the same direction. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z In our time mass or collective production has entered our economics, our politics, and even our religion, so that some nations have substituted the idea collective for the idea God. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Any matter that fell into the hole would be destroyed at the singularity, and only the gravitational effect of its mass would continue to be felt outside. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z But that was past, and too many of those now reaching the top of the mountain and spreading massed together had never shared it, and some had been born in other lands. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z But they were closing in, the great mass converging. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She scooped up her staff and ran, her black hair swishing behind her, straight into the mass of marchers. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Since it was against the law for private cars to charge fares like licensed taxis, the network would be paid for by donations collected at the mass meetings. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z His private information is walled behind a mass of shields—not just one, but dozens. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z They moved down here right at the beginning of the “Big Bail,” which is what they called the mass exodus from the Central Valley’s farming communities. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z The employees spread out from one side of the room to the other, from foreground to background, a mass occupying the enormous space like gas filling a hot air balloon. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z He noted that it is nearly impossible to imagine anything remotely similar to mass incarceration happening to young white men. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I can hear the news anchor say something about a mass grave found in Mexico. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z When the herd passes, the thing that was August is a tangled mass of flesh, innards, and straw. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z The vertical mass was a figure, a person who was now backing away from her and beginning to fade into the darker background of the trees. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “You don’t know the indignation of the masses!” he exploded. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Upon reflection, it is relatively easy to understand how Americans come to deny the evils of mass incarceration. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Never since have I felt so much at home in the Church, so easy at mass. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Now what?” said Harry, blinking at the solid mass of cloud pressing in on them from all sides. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Europe's defenders argue that the mass deaths cannot be described as genocide. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z By the late 1980s and early 1990s, the politics of fear and anger sweeping the country and fueling mass incarceration was turning its attention to children. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Stars with masses above the Chandrasekhar limit, on the other hand, have a big problem when they come to the end of their fuel. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The friends drape the coffin in a white cloth and surround it with masses of flowers, dahlias and sunflowers, “yellow flowers everywhere.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Less and less mass, more and more energy. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z They massed in great murmurations, expanding and contracting and curving this way and that. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z The people must have an outlet for their anger and frustration, and a mass action campaign was the best way to channel those emotions. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In the months leading up to the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, dueling experts floated diametrically opposite forecasts about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z My first few days, they had seemed like one big green-clad undifferentiated mass. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Then it worked its head up and down, forcing the sticky mass down its gullet. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Below the wall was a scene of mass carnage. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The great auditorium for Ford’s Day celebrations and other massed Community Sings was at the bottom of the building. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Three of the seven areas were on the land masses that are currently called the Americas. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z There was the rushing sound of seventy-five thousand voices and the tumbling motion of horses and the flight of wind and dirt and the airy unreal feeling of mass and gravity slipping away. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He asked, gesturing toward a mass of dark cloth on his private worktable. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z But it was not designed to sustain a sudden impact from a loose three-hundred-kilogram mass. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I was to hold mass on Sundays like father Byrnes did in the church in town. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The foot-weary warriors told their stories at the mass meetings, inspiring and encouraging one another to keep walking. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z When our food and clothing and housing all are born in the complication of mass production, mass method is bound to get into our thinking and to eliminate all other thinking. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The spirit of mass action surged, but I remained skeptical of any action undertaken with the Communists and Indians. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z When Annabella, testing the water with her stick, nodded, she emptied the massed blossoms into the pot. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In simplest terms, what the equation says is that mass and energy have an equivalence. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z While human evolution was crawling at its usual snail’s pace, the human imagination was building astounding networks of mass cooperation, unlike any other ever seen on earth. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Minutes slipped by as Smith waded through the mass of spectators. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Alec shouted his name but Mark could barely hear him over the mass of angry people. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Each bite weighed on my tongue and felt like a sticky mass of glue as I fought to get it down. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Blood is withdrawn from our outer muscle layer and concentrated in core muscle mass. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z The reason is simple: nothing has contributed more to the systematic mass incarceration of people of color in the United States than this ongoing war. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Researchers had previously noted the temporal coincidence between the paleo-Indians’ arrival and the mass extinction, but they didn’t believe that small bands of hunters could wreak such ecological havoc. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “I caved in. The other day, Nina said she’d noticed all of the requiem masses I’d been listening to. She suggested some others. Here’s the hideous thing.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Jason nodded encouragingly, like this was great news—like he expected Leo to walk up to a towering mass of darkness, shoot a few fireballs, and solve all their problems. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “In the queer mass of human destiny, the determining factor has always been luck,” Mr. Turner observed, raising one eyebrow to Miss Riley. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z With so many Persians gathered in such close proximity, it was inevitable they would reach critical mass and ignite a game of Rook. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z She liked the combined smell of worn leather bindings, library paste and freshly inked stamping pads better than she liked the smell of burning incense at high mass. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z His hair was a mass of lazy brown curls, his eyes like liquid gold. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z For example, the theory predicts that the light cones of points near the sun would be slightly bent inward, on account of the mass of the sun. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d lost nearly twenty pounds of muscle mass, largely from my shoulders, back, and legs. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z “A mass breakout?” repeated the Prime Minister hoarsely. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Though this was supposed to be a chartered train that the deportees had paid for, a mass of Japanese soldiers in their khaki uniforms and caps pushed on board. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The horse zipped through the crowd with incredible speed, pushing back Romans and causing mass panic. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The castle was completely empty; even the ghosts seemed to have joined the mass mourning in the Great Hall. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Always there is the sense of a tide behind them, rising, gathering mass, carrying with it a slow and vindictive rage. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The thought of making weapons of mass destruction had never occurred to him. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a mass ahead but it did not seem to be moving. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z All of the land masses of all the earth could fit easily into the Pacific and there would still be plenty of water left. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The shadows of the massed black pines were lavender in that bright light, and I walked with Valerie awhile, down the familiar labyrinth of shoveled asylum paths. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z I scrambled backward as the roof disintegrated into a mass of falling rubble. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Where is the movement to end mass incarceration? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z If we had actually learned to show love, care, compassion, and concern across racial lines during the Civil Rights Movement—rather than go colorblind—mass incarceration would not exist today. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z When he had a church, I used to go to mass to hear him preach. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z It leaps savagely on the crab, there is a puff of black fluid, and the struggling mass is obscured in the sepia cloud while the octopus murders the crab. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Growers claimed that the instant a knife sliced the stalks, the sweet mass inside started to harden and turn woody. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z All the people, even the Catholics who went to mass every Sunday, followed the ritual of the deer. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Supernovae violently eject much of their stellar mass into space. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I could not free myself of that mass weighing down my chest. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The pumpkin was a thick, dark, good-smelling mass in the kettle. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z We have the same mass, skill level, patterns of thinking. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z The table greatly simplifies a complex mass of historical facts: see the text for some of the many important caveats. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I went to the mass meetings when they were at churches on the other side of town, where people wouldn’t recognize me. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z We sit through an overly sentimental video about "huddled masses" and listen to a bulky soprano belt out the words to "My Country, 'Tis of Thee." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z At a mass meeting in late December, Ann lashed out against those who termed the boycott an example of “black lawlessness.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Outside in the darkness, the endless mass of pack ice was grinding against itself like a restless giant breaking mountains in its sleep. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z That Sunday after the maids went off to early mass, my mother inspected their quarters while my father kept watch by a window. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z “Yes, I grew up Catholic, though my family worked so much, we didn’t go to church often. But trust me, there were no songs like ‘Goin’ Up Yonder’ at Sunday mass! Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z At first I didn’t see the soldiers at all—just a giant, swirling mass of insects, so dense it was opaque, about fifty feet down the footpath. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z But Mary Louise Smith, the second teenager with the nerve to face down Jim Crow on a city bus, was, like Claudette, branded “unfit” to serve as the public face of a mass bus protest. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z So Mrs. Turner struggled into the mass and caught Tea Cake by the arm. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z We all attended regular mass and then Father Samuel held an additional special service just for Abuela at the end. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z But nothing could stop the mass of hungry men and women and they fought like beasts until all were fed. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z The scalp is covered by a mass of wispy black hair. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I look at our little mass of people. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z He began to see her as an enormous container that held a formless, gelatinous mass that he was unable to view as his own child. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The old tree at which the saw was working was dead except one great branch that stood green among the masses of brown boughs. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z From a distance I could see the small, dark mass of rock surrounded by a blinding halo of light and sea spray. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z The men continued to ignore him, walking along in a mass, some talking in groups and others talking and gesticulating to themselves. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z A mass of filthy, matted hair hung to his elbows. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z A tangle of golden-brown snakes writhed among one another, twisting and coiling in an indistinguishable mass. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The white marble plaza was a solid mass of people, all yammering excitedly at each other and straining to get closer to the Great Sept of Baelor. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The church contained a single, open space where we villagers knelt on the rush-strewn floor to face our priest and altar during mass. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z KdF was a national German organization that was supposed to make leisure activities available to the masses, regardless of social class. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z It was around that time that he was heard to say: “The only difference today between Liberals and Conservatives is that the Liberals go to mass at five o’clock and the Conservatives at eight.” One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z We also have some evidence that there is a much larger black hole, with a mass of about a hundred thousand times that of the sun, at the center of our galaxy. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The masses were told to make toibee, a fertilizer in which ash is mixed with human excrement. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z According to this view, any non-rotating star, however complicated its shape and internal structure, would end up after gravitational collapse as a perfectly spherical black hole, whose size would depend only on its mass. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z So is our current system of mass incarceration. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z She pulled together picket lines, marches, mass rallies, and demonstrations. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Given the dilemma facing poor black communities, it is inaccurate to say that black people “support” mass incarceration or “get tough” policies. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z In the place of neat, orderly lines was mass chaos. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z It is also too large a mass to be a neutron star. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The tribe fought from horseback, charging in a mass into villages and encampments. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He popped the mass of food into his mouth. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z They contribute previously unknown mass to the universe as well. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z His answer sounded so right, and he said it like Huey Newton addressing the masses. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z On the evening of the march, with more than nine hundred arrested children filling Birmingham’s jails, Dr. King held a mass church meeting. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Their voices, massed together in a low whisper, could be heard throughout the cemetery.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z But inevitably, the black masses started realizing they had been smoothly hoaxed again by the white man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d found one lone coconut in a mass of sea grape and broken sticks. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The hovering mass—my former spiraling line of eager patrons—gasped. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z As more join in, they seem to reach a critical mass, a quorum, and the thinking begins. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z To that fantastical end, the government regularly enlists the masses in miserable tasks dressed up in noble slogans. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z He could easily imagine her carrying a picket sign and bellowing slogans while a swirling mass of angry blacks followed in her wake. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The players finally appear, scattered at opposite ends of the mass of floating islands. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The Southern struggle had grown from a modest group of black students demonstrating peacefully at one lunch counter to the largest mass movement for racial reform and civil rights in the twentieth century. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z During their visit to Auschwitz, which is now a museum, Uncle Sigmund shared his memories of being assigned to repaint the gas chambers after each mass execution. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z As the air temperature drops and the water continues to freeze, the pancakes mass together and harden into a single sheet, or ice field. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Furthermore, since perceptions tend to become realities, the natural tendency of the mass media to accentuate the anomalous, combined with an innumerate society’s taste for such extremes, could conceivably have quite dire consequences. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In the bottom was an oilcloth sack containing a large gummy mass of black denner resin, at least four times as much as Denna and I had already scraped together. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z A thick line of police fanned out to hold the masses back. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z With changes in travel, communication, and mass media, the world had accelerated; things now happened so fast it was sometimes difficult to keep up with them. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She closed her eyes, feeling the peace of the afternoon on her skin, the warm breath of the air and the solid mass of the ground beneath her, and she fell asleep. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z They formed one undulating mass of red, the head of a dragon rising from their midst. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z A mass anti-Zionist rally was announced for a date a few days before Passover. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z By lunchtime, the whole place was a seething mass of men, women, and children all pushing and shoving to get a glimpse of this miraculous fruit. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z Out of the corner of my eye 1 saw a dark mass near an overturned basket. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z No longer a ropy mass of gangly arms and gangly legs, but now a big, firm, curvy woman, exulting in her weight and height, and it made her imposing, a presence that drew the eyes. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z A few matings still were inexplicable, but, even so, the vast masses of data now falling into place made me certain that we were on the right track. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Or perhaps mass gang-ups just have a will of their own that swallows up resistance. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z The soup looked fairly standard, but there was a round moon-like mass in the middle. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z If we become serious about dismantling the system of mass incarceration, we must end the War on Drugs. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The other mothers dressed up for mass, wearing black lace mantillas on their heads and clutching green or red or yellow handbags that matched their shoes. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I sat waiting for hours, resentful of the mass of hungry people about me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The boy who had helped him with the mass brought him a cup of thick and steaming chocolate, which he drank without pausing to breathe. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The new laws and tactics of the government had made the old forms of mass protest — public meetings, press statements, stay-aways — extremely dangerous and self-destructive. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The whole is a mass of fools and knaves; I could almost except you... Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The parallels between mass incarceration and Jim Crow extend all the way to the U.S. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Descriptivists believe that the rules of correct usage are nothing more than the secret handshake of the ruling class, designed to keep the masses in their place. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z There was the same zinc pipe rising from the hard stone mass over his groin and leading to the dear glass jar on the floor. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Nor was it a satisfactory solution to keep the masses in poverty by restricting the output of goods. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z He stopped the ball mill, washed out the color gun and filled it with blue mass. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z One day, civil rights organizations may be embarrassed by how long it took them to move out of denial and do the hard work necessary to end mass incarceration. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He did not want her to float away into history, into the times, an upswelling of the masses. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z But although he speculated that the atom was mostly empty space rather than a homogenous mass speckled with charged nuggets, he had not yet conceived an alternative model. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z On the other hand, if the force-carrying particles have no mass of their own, the forces will be long range. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z There they took all the Jewish men in the village, some five hundred, to a meadow near the forest, machine-gunned them down, and buried them in a mass grave. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Secondly, when climate change causes mass extinctions, sea creatures are usually hit as hard as land dwellers. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Just like he had been sand-papered down to a long oval mass. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z Rachael’s proportions, he noticed once again, were odd; with her heavy mass of dark hair, her head seemed large, and because of her diminutive breasts, her body assumed a lank, almost childlike stance. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z The Dukes, the Carrs, and the Parrishes all depended on the small number of affluent and politically conservative blacks to act as a buffer between themselves and the potentially more aggressive black masses in Hayti. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The fish, sardines, would begin gathering soon after, a slow mass of silver rising from below. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z A herd of baby strollers parted the mass of bodies and ripped our hands apart. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The afternoon crowd was mild in comparison to the masses that had confronted Frankie and me the night before. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Only mass education, he used to say, would free my people, arguing that an educated man could not be oppressed because he could think for himself. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Such “missing mass,” if common in intergalactic space, would make a major contribution to closing the universe. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z DuPont had pulled off the feat that every marketer dreams of: it brought class to the masses. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Another clear parallel between mass incarceration and Jim Crow is the systematic exclusion of blacks from juries. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “It is not often,” Buckley continued, “that a representative of the people finds the masses of the citizens who elected him to office standing literally at his back, waiting for him to enforce the law. ...” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The spaceship—or for that matter any other object with mass—never quite reaches the speed of light. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z They also call into question the legitimacy of “convenience” as an excuse for the mass imprisonment of black and brown men in ghetto communities. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Almost at once the number of egg masses deposited on experimental goats began to decrease, as did their fertility. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Now that the hyper-rich have achieved a critical mass, property values have zoomed so high that the less- well-off are being forced to leave and the island is becoming nature’s ultimate gated community. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z They made mass arrests of students, sending them to the local jail, and when that was filled to capacity, to prison camps outside of town. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z I shoved my hands into the pockets of my jeans so that I was lying on my arms, all of me one long mass. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z “They’re giving me my own lab. Meanwhile, don’t tell them, but I’m purchasing mass quantities of research supplies: sugar, gelatin, cornstarch and...jelly bean molds!” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z “There’s a mass and then a big party. Everyone gets dressed up and dances a lot. It’s supposed to mark the transition to womanhood. My grandmother has been planning mine since I was, like, two.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z I cupped my hands to the window but could see only black masses of foliage against a dark sky. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z For some, the characterization of mass incarceration as a “racial caste system” may seem like a gross exaggeration, if not hyperbole. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z So they went to this early mass, got it over with and went home and slept all day with a free conscience. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I was encouraged by the fact that nationwide the rate of mass incarceration had finally slowed. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Furious, the officer swore at Alfons and said, “Hasn’t it occurred to you yet that you and I are serving a mass murderer?” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Coulter could see it clearly in the wash of the floodlights, streaming with rain, an ungainly mass of machinery and wiring slightly tilted on the rocky ground. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z And if, say, one of the bodies had twice the mass, and the other had three times the mass, then the force would be six times as strong. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I watched him now, wet-eyed, the sun hot upon my head, and I felt a wonder at the singing mass. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The main body of the creature was a shimmering, pulsating mass of white and mauve, shaped roughly like a cone. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Okay, now what’s the scene everybody talks about, the single moment that stays fresh for you and me and the masses? The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Lightning flashed within the broiling mass, and the sky rumbled. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Not a sound of distress, not a plaintive cry, nothing but mass agony and silence. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z But a more massive star, left, after its supernova phase, with, say, five times the Sun’s mass, has an even more remarkable fate reserved for it—its gravity will turn it into a black hole. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Inside Ignatius saw a seething mass of people. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The room trembles, and the crowd bursts into a mass of jumping limbs. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The birds lifted from their roost and massed behind the girl. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z The old mass proceeded with sure, blind pomp precisely because Catholics had faith in their public identity as Catholics; the old liturgy was ceremonial because of the Church’s assumption that worship is a public event. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I search for him in the masses, wanting to tell him I'm not here for him to find me beautiful. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z We shuffle to the dining room, where the gargantuan oval oak table is covered with evidence of a mass operation. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Slowly and carefully she worked her way through the tangled mass. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z They waved at him, but had no chance to speak to him because the mass of people around them was shunting them away along the platform. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Regions in which the density was slightly higher than average would have had their expansion slowed down by the gravitational attraction of the extra mass. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z R-and-W had all of these, and the worst cases were loners, shunned by the mass of inmates. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z At first, a guerrilla army picks off enemy outposts and interferes with communications, but then, if it gathers strength, it must eventually move from hit-and-run attacks to a massed engagement with the enemy. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z At first all she saw was stone and trees, the looming mass of the great mountain shrouded in night, as black as a starless sky. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Since the black hole has mass, it causes space-time to curve. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z To be caught in some small transgression—missing a day of work, speaking harshly of his rule, failing to attend mass— brought an unforgiving penalty. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z I went to the nine o’clock mass every Sunday with my family. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Enabling virtually all citizens to experience noteworthy events simultaneously and in entertaining form, radio created a vast common culture in America, arguably the first true mass culture the world had ever seen. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The mass mystified me for being a public and a private event. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z His entire body was a mass of deep, raw, red wounds. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Its heavy bulbous shape billowed out as rising air currents added to its mass. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Homesick, I sighed and moved the mass of meat loaf around my plate. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The leaders sure weren’t going to invite a pregnant teenager up onstage during a mass meeting. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z The system of mass incarceration is based on the prison label, not prison time. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Everyone was trying to do what I was, so we twisted and moved constantly, a mass of humanity jostling in a never-ending quest to avoid freezing. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z This would be rather difficult, however: the black hole would have the mass of a mountain compressed into less than a million millionth of an inch, the size of the nucleus of an atom! A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z This simple formula relates mass and energy: the mass of an object is equivalent to a certain amount of energy. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z When, on November 24, 2014, it was announced that the St. Louis County Grand Jury had decided not to indict Wilson for the fatal shooting, Ferguson became the source of mass protests. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Sunday morning he would get up very crudo and complain about having to go to early mass. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Her hair stood up and out to the sides in dry masses, black even though she was old. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Sputnik weighed 184 pounds, and obviously required a very large rocket to accelerate this mass to a sufficient speed to achieve orbit. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The sentimental solution would be ideal: to remain a liberal Catholic and to worship at a traditional mass. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The answer is in the local struggle among contending rivals for leadership of the black masses, which are potentially the most volatile sub-group in America.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z However, if there is enough mass—galaxies, galaxy clusters, and unseen dark matter—the initial push given by the big bang wouldn’t be enough to allow the balloon to inflate forever. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z His Zionist group was planning a mass rally in Madison Square Garden, he told me. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z The anchor dominated the landscape, a great mass hulking behind the silhouettes of the overlapping domes. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Manhattan was a towering mass of skyscrapers on their left. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Hubbard began to explain that a tropical air mass was moving in from— Groves cut Hubbard off. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Looking into that huge mass of faces was like looking into the ugliest depths of the human soul. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z One cannot speak to a mass of people as one addresses an audience of two dozen. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Thomson, had demonstrated the existence of a particle of matter, called the electron, that had a mass less than one thousandth of that of the lightest atom. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The chaplain was Catholic, and the Catholic guys had a mass or something. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Even today there is no greater venom among hardcore classical music champions than that reserved for so-called 'crossover’ artists who dare to pollute the pure waters of the classical repertoire by appealing to the masses. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The principle of mass production at last applied to biology. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “Look!” and he nodded his head towards the moving mass of creatures before them. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z In our example, we see two- dimensional space warped by mass into a third physical dimension. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, balked by the staunch brick walls of the houses at the foot of the hill, the death-dealing mass swept back towards the water. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z I had never witnessed mass chaos, but just the weekend before I had seen the precursor. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Ultimately, I believe that the similarities between these systems of control overwhelm the differences and that mass incarceration, like its predecessors, has been largely immunized from legal challenge. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Sometimes they massed into a wall so thick that he had to scramble down to the water’s edge and wade to make further progress. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z As with the zero-point energy, scientists learned to ignore the infinite mass and charge of the electron. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z From the observed orbit of the visible star, one can determine the lowest possible mass of the unseen object. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Lourdes imagines white azaleas and an altar set for high mass on an April Sunday. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z As you fall toward the singularity, the black hole’s mass appears to grow and grow to infinity. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Trade winds roll the water in great masses. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The boy was a hulking mass of muscle with spiked hair and a smile that was all top teeth and gums. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z While these reforms were desperately needed, deinstitutionalization intersected with the spread of mass imprisonment policies—expanding criminal statutes and harsh sentencing—to disastrous effect. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z As my fingers tightened on the door handle, I felt his hand push through my unruly mass of dark hair and seize the back of my neck. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z “Don't know, boss,” the man says, spinning on himself to propel additional flyers into the hands of the rushing masses, none of whom appear to be stopping. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Teachers had courted her and cursed her, but no one before had simply melted her into the mass. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z Part of that critical thinking involves recognition that “America” is a name given to two land masses by European colonizers. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z I am the people—the mob—the crowd—the mass. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I never had been in such a jammed mass of people, but I never had felt more alone, and helpless, since I was a baby. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z One can also consider the possibility that there might be black holes with masses much less than that of the sun. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It cooks up into the sort of tasteless mass one might induce an American child to try once, after a long round of pulled-up noses and double-dog dares. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The moment her head snapped and bounced up and fell back again, her brain, like a mass of Jell-O, slid inside her skull. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z But only Catholic school kids went to mass the next morning to honor the white- robed saints on the Feast of All Hallows. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He managed to do this easily, and in spite of its width and weight his body mass at last slowly followed the turning of his head. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z A steady current of heated air rose all day from the mountain and was thrust to ten thousand feet; revolving masses of gas piled up the static until the air was ready to explode. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z She reached down to touch the hot, wet, moving mass, surely smaller than anything human, and could feel that it was human after all—fingers, toes, nails, nose. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Lee looked down die smoky street, saw a man helping another man along die road, saw masses of men moving vaguely through a field, saw flashes of artillery. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She stirred the water all the time with a big wooden spoon, and sifted in the meal until the kettle was full of a thick, yellow, bubbling mass. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The creature she’d laid eyes on had been a thing built from nightmares, a mass of raw pink skin stretched tight over tendons and bone. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The mass is less ornamental; it has been ‘modernized,’ tampered with, demythologized, deflated. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z They possessed the academic know-how, they possessed the technical and the scientific skills that could help to lead their mass of poor, black brothers out of our condition. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Mounted police launched cavalry charges into the massed strikers, swinging at them with batons. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z It didn’t have to pause and carefully fit any flesh-on-skeleton mass through the gap, but flowed out with the ease of a ghost, which was what it was. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Every object that has mass creates a little depression in the fabric of the cosmos. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z One way of understanding our current system of mass incarceration is to think of it as a birdcage with a locked door. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z She was thrashing and screaming above the silent masses. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z The critical mass of plutonium would not stay together long enough to create a massive atomic explosion. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The handful that remained joined the ranks of He- Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, and were responsible for some of the worst mass Muggle killings of his reign of terror. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z I raised my arms and howled, but the stoner-metal tunes must have seriously connected with Fang, because he melted into the throbbing mass of bodies and was gone. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z In the face of this mass action, Mr. de Klerk said that if the ANC made the country ungovernable, the government might be forced to consider some unpleasant options. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z When our special mass was over, I saw Mop’s mom and dad. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z The fact that some black people endorse harsh responses to crime is best understood as a form of complicity with mass incarceration—not support for it. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He improvised an altar in the square and on Sunday he went through the town with a small bell, as in the days of insomnia, calling people to an open-air mass. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Part of it was sitting on her face and she seemed to be staring at him through the quivering mass of jelly. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Obama’s stated positions on criminal justice reform suggest that he is opposed to the War on Drugs and the systematic targeting of African Americans for mass incarceration. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z A mass of men was coming down the road, unarmed, unspiked, no rifles visible: prisoners. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z One could go into a Catholic church anywhere in the world and hear the very same mass. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z These matters are not merely academic, and there is a direct way in which the mass media’s predilection for dramatic reporting leads to extreme politics and even pseudoscience. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z A writhing mass of painted snakes emerges on all the walls. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z They asked, secondly, that he renounce the fight against clerical influence in order to obtain the support of the Catholic masses. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Annabeth was kneeling under the weight of a dark mass that looked like a pile of boulders. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z “Also, it turns out the visible mass of a galaxy doesn’t have enough gravity to explain why it doesn’t fly apart.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z ‘I think we can reach Spain this time if we’re lucky. Just let me -’ The mob of ghosts vanished, like a mass of birthday candles blown out in a single breath. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The consciousness of the masses needs only to be influenced in a negative way. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z I made my way through the mass of people to the old woman. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z It is no use to take an action to which the masses are opposed, for it will then be impossible to enforce. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z At the end of the alley stood a girl with a mass of golden curls, dressed as pretty as a doll in blue satin. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Clasping her hands together, she closed those gray-blue eyes and ducked her head down and all I could see then was the big mass of wavy brown hair and the little blue hat. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z As it sank he became less and less frenzied; and just as it dipped he slid from the hands that held him, an inert mass, on the floor. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Not just with objective wonder at the rising of a truth, fragmentary or not, up through what often seemed to be an impenetrable mass of prejudices, clichés, and bromides. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z We now turn to another important difference between mass incarceration and Jim Crow: the direct harm to whites caused by the current caste system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z She was just falling, gently, through this soft powdery mass, falling farther and farther from anything resembling life, but she could not allow herself to panic. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Only a truly mass organization could coordinate such activities, and the ANC did so. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The predictable response is that civil rights advocates are as committed to challenging mass incarceration and other forms of structural racism as they are to preserving affirmative action. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z On Sunday afternoons, after high mass, they went to baseball games and ate roasted peanuts from brown paper cones. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Shouldn’t we focus the public’s attention on the so-called root causes of mass incarceration, such as educational inequity? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z As Lawrence expected, the skills of the mass spectrograph operators improved dramatically with experience, expanding the device’s capabilities; by mid-January, a nine-hour run yielded 18 micrograms of uranium enriched to 25 percent U-235. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The people of Bone Gap whispered, No, don’t, please, as she slipped the bare hand inside the writhing mass of bees. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z The homily at Sunday mass, intended to give parishioners basic religious instruction, has often been poorly prepared and aimed at a childish listener. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He lost sight of her for a second or two, then saw her as she crossed the island, highlighted against the darker mass of trees. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “I go to church. Mass. I go to mass.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Open water was becoming harder and harder to find: a shifting mass of ice stretched from one horizon to the next. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z When the onions were cooked to just the right softness, Dr. Bulkeley piled them in a mass on a linen napkin and applied the blistering poultice to Mercy’s chest. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z She learned her mistake when the lumpy indigestible mass was ladled onto her wooden trencher. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z If she could get that purse away from Von Marsh, there was no way the matron would be able to follow her through the masses of people. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z He turned and looked back in the direction of the mountain, but it was hidden in a swirling mass of wet clouds. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, most of the mass of an atom is in its nucleus; the electrons are by comparison just clouds of moving fluff. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Darker still, almost black, were the mats of water moss, their thick masses motionless on the bed of the river and only the trailing fronds waving slowly from side to side. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a small hilly mass of land, covered in forests and ringed with white beaches. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Faced with the twin rebellions of dissonant modernism and the mass market, the classical tradition found an ace up its sleeve and played it with impeccable timing. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z We now had no alternative but to resort to civil disobedience, and we embarked on preparations for mass action in earnest. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The shadow broke up into a mass of black-cloaked men swarming over the outside of the cars. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z The tent emerged in a lumpy mass of canvas, rope, and poles. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Their massed branches created deep shadows, among which streaks of harsh sunlight confused the image of what lay beneath. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He was looking toward the dark mass that stood at the very end of this row of houses. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z A critical mass would not be achieved, and the bomb would fizzle. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z What I would see if I were more alert to the situation is that the forces of destruction are already massing against me. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z A dark mass to my left attracts my attention; something dull in texture is floating on the surface of the darkening stream. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z There was smoke, clatter, mud, and confusion, as if an army were massing for an assault on Chicago. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z There are important differences, to be sure, among mass incarceration, Jim Crow, and slavery—the three major racialized systems of control adopted in the United States to date. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z In the meantime, we’ve been cut off by the dark mass of clouds, so that we can go neither up nor down. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z I stood on my toes, trying to see into the mass of people, but the angle had changed. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z And now submarines are armed with mass murder, our silly, only way of deterring mass murder. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Tearing through wreckage near the collapsed “El,” he suddenly spotted a mass of yellow hair floating in a pool of molasses. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Lawrence donated the unfinished 184-inch to the bomb effort by converting it to a mass spectrograph for the separation of uranium isotopes. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z But he also carried himself with an air of superciliousness that did not befit the leader of a mass organization. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Inevitably a new system of racialized social control will emerge—one that we cannot foresee, just as the current system of mass incarceration was not predicted by anyone thirty years ago. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z In the few short decades since King’s death, a new regime of racially disparate mass incarceration has emerged in Chicago and become the primary mechanism for racial oppression and the denial of equal opportunity. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Just a mass, a mass pouring itself down the road. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Westley said, sitting up, staring out at the massed troops in the distance. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z He appeared at dawn on Sunday like a prince in a fairy tale, riding a horse with silver stirrups and a velvet blanket, and he left town after mass. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Bleak as the area was, there was no money for anything better; the low wages paid by Swift and his fellow packers kept the unskilled masses living in squalor. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Because mass incarceration is officially colorblind, it seems inconceivable that the system could function much like a racial caste system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z These “Kerr” black holes rotate at a constant rate, their size and shape depending only on their mass and rate of rotation. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z And every fourth Sunday, God and the weather willing, a Catholic priest says mass in the schoolhouse. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Whenever I can, I bring a priest in to say mass for them, so I don’t see why the priest comes to talk to me about justice. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z As both ladders fell there were scenes of mass chaos. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z At the sight of her mass bearing down, I jumped off the fallen tree and bolted across the clearing. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z With its sinuous trunk it stroked the huge corpse; then it reached up, broke some leafy branches with a snap, and draped them over the mass of tom thick flesh. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z But if you believe this system effectively controls crime, consider this: standard estimates of the amount of crime reduction that can be attributable to mass incarceration range from 3 to 25 percent. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Hawaii was also unique within Polynesia in using mass labor for aquaculture, by constructing large fishponds in which milkfish and mullet were grown. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Out of the broken, twisted, tangled mass streaked a brown furry ball. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Government propagandists repeatedly claimed that the leaders of the campaign were living it up in comfort while the masses were languishing in jail. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Lola includes all kinds of things: big coffee tins, mass quantities of toothpaste, shoes, clothes, and lipstick in pretty shades for all the aunties there. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z Absorbed in her thoughts, Francie missed the beginning of the mass. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z It only says what we’ve always known and never had enough time to worry about, that we haven’t yet learned how to stay human when assembled in masses. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I stand at the Creed of the mass. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Roses were not roses but “flecks of white or red modifying masses of green.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “Hurry! Russian planes dropped phosphorus on a mass of refugees. It blinded them and they had to roll in the snow.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Corporal Snark was an intellectual snob who felt he was twenty years ahead of his time and did not enjoy cooking down to the masses. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The usual crazy rumors: massed artillery and Russian tanks and whole divisions of fresh troops. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The entire class is as still as a mass of mannequins after the mall closes. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Deserted by Milo, they trudged homelessly through the reveling masses in futile search of a place to sleep. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z However, if the force-carrying particles have a high mass, it will be difficult to produce and exchange them over a large distance. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The child’s privileged position allowed him to see at that moment that the wild mass was starting to get to the corner and the row of machine guns opened fire. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “You can’t wrestle before mass, it’s a sin,” Lloyd cut in. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Challenging mass incarceration requires something civil rights advocates have long been reluctant to do: advocacy on behalf of those labeled criminals. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z And now some of the older ones in the mass were joining in. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Other differences between Jim Crow and mass incarceration are actually more significant than they may initially appear. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z At that moment a new wave of firing broke out on the other side of the gray mass. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Many of the ‘ordinary’ prayers of the mass were generally recognizable to me. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Outside, a mass, darker than the storm, took shape and grew larger. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z The picture on the screen is a complicated mass of lines and numbers, with certain parts selected in yellow and red. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z In this chapter, we shall see how the system of mass incarceration actually works. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Today, a similar debate rages in black communities about the underlying causes of mass incarceration. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He heard mass standing, as he always did, and at the end he stepped in front of Remedios the Beauty and offered her the solitary rose. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z How was classical music going to respond to this new, potentially fatal relationship between mass audiences and new genres that were irresistible to them? The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z When Amari turned the page again, there I was—my hair a mass of curly red wires that seemed to be shooting electricity. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z The faces and voices blur into a spinning mass. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Felon disenfranchisement laws have been more effective in eliminating black voters in the age of mass incarceration than they were during Jim Crow. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “I hear there is a mass burial site,” she said. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z She shoots a pointed look at my hair, which, I have to admit, is a tangled mass held back by a headband. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z In September, the union was ready to sign up the masses. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Instead of getting big fat curls, I emerged with an uneven mass of crinkly black fuzz. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Now he was coming to the end of the inlet, a high blank wrinkled mass of rock against which, narrowed to the width of a little creek, the last sea-waves lapped feebly. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z The night before the mass operation, Martha was told she would sleep at the house of Dad’s oldest sister, Aunt Anne. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z An imposing congregation had massed itself around her first certainties, and now it was waiting and she could not disappoint it at the altar. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Her mass and density of words is bending space and time. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z After a drawn-out series of death throes—the precise sequence of events depends, again, on the mass of the star—the star’s fusion engine fails, and the star begins to collapse under its own gravity. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Most do not contain enough observable mass to support the gravitational forces necessary to hold them together. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z She remembered the pro-Independence rallies at university; mass movements always made her feel empowered, the thought that for a thin slice of time all these people were united by a single possibility. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z It was one of the ‘holy days of obligation’—a day on which I was obliged to go to morning mass, but for the rest of the day I was free— no school. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Friends find it peculiar that I still go to mass; most have heard me complain about liturgical changes. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z On hearing about Milton’s death, she had removed her hairnet, tearing at the masses of hair that tumbled down. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z More precisely, they hear Kenna and their instinct is that he is the kind of artist whom other people—the mass audience of music buyers—are going to like. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z The bell called the people to six o’clock mass. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “I quite agree that the production of neutrons from beryllium is no evidence for the disintegration of deutons and a low mass for the neutron,” he wrote. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z My sister Ferula helped me get closer to the del Valle family by uncovering distant links between our ancestors and theirs, and seeking out every opportunity to greet them as they came out of mass. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z A shrieking chaotic mass of boys and girls ran down the sidewalk, jumped off the stairs, clustered in groups. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z If an astronaut falls into a black hole, its mass will increase, but eventually the energy equivalent of that extra mass will be returned to the universe in the form of radiation. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Thirdly, mass extinctions akin to the archetypal Australian decimation occurred again and again in the ensuing millennia—whenever people settled another part of the Outer World. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The strong fumes of lye stung her eyelids and stirring the heavy mass tired her arms and shoulders. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Their church clothes were soiled by the time the last mass rolled around at six. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A thousand times better than Winston, he knew what the world was really like, in what degradation the mass of human beings lived and by what lies and barbarities the Party kept them there. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z At ten I knew the meaning of the many ritual gestures the priest makes during the mass. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Isabella lets her mass of waves plop back down and frowns at me. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z It has been nearly a century since scientists measured the electron’s mass and charge. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The mass action consisted of strikes, demonstrations, and boycotts. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I breathe a sigh to be out of the masses, but it is not a sigh of relief. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Tearing at him, clouds of them, the awful, ripping, thick masses of the small monsters trying to bleed him dry. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z She wore her decorous dresses to morning mass, and around her neck displayed the short single strand of pearls she had received on her fifteenth birthday. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I begin a year-long project on how football in America has become ritualistic, almost a religion, an opiate for the masses. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z But in all the churches I have had to listen to the new English mass. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z In early September there was a nine o’clock mass on the Friday of the first week of school to pray for academic success. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z That small mass on the sand up ahead, not as dark as the rocks—could that be a vase? A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z “The mass exodus of the children of Abnegation leaders cannot be ignored or attributed to coincidence,” he reads. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Yet another notable difference between Jim Crow and mass incarceration is that many African Americans seem to support the current system of control, while most believe the same could not be said of Jim Crow. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z In contrast, the potential mass market for printing in medieval Europe induced numerous investors to lend money to Gutenberg. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The Nazis suppressed the information, but it proved difficult to keep the mass murders a secret. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Chandrasekhar showed that a collapsing star that has about 1.4 times the mass of our sun will have enough gravity to overwhelm the Pauli exclusion principle. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The electron is a zero-dimensional object, and its very zerolike nature ensures that scientists don’t even know the electron’s mass or charge. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z This is what you might expect because one could think of the new body A as being made of two bodies with the original mass. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He saw a mass of people at a breach in one wall. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Trip quickly organized the whole troupe into a great chanting, howling mass that my father managed to withstand for almost a minute before he stooped and lifted his lute back out of the case. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z They cut not by sharpness but by force and mass. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Like ghostly figures, large trees loomed out of the almost solid mass. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z And then, it opened its jaws and unleashed a mass of chewed sheep flesh onto the forest floor. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z This was Selma’s first mass meeting in six months, since the court order banning marches and meetings. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z In addition to calculating lean body mass, the testing situation also checked for claustrophobia since space capsules were quite small. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z The swarm of particles makes it difficult to get a measurement of the electron’s mass and charge, because the particles interfere with the measurement, masking the electron’s true properties. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z On the other hand, Amaranta and the others who had gone to mass took it off without any trouble. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Or was she floating amongst the trains and masses of Lithuanians, searching for her husband? Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z With the rise of the Populist Party in 1892, farmers and laborers formed the first mass multiracial coalition in the country’s history. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z At that moment I perceived an orange mass. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z I scratch at the frizzy mass of my hair and watch her walk away. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z In the era of mass incarceration, poor African Americans are not given the option of great schools, community investment, and job training. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Min threw a mass of clay the size of a cabbage onto the center of the wheel. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Over the past two days more war-sick had arrived, and hundreds of them were massing to the south beyond. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z I looked at the masses of people on the train platform. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Together, they create orderly patterns—such as trade networks, mass celebrations and political institutions—that they could never have created in isolation. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z No, there had to be thousands in all this vast white mass, of which hundreds were visible just from the track. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The fate of a star, the end of its life cycle, depends very much on its initial mass. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In America, in contrast, the great unwashed masses were increasingly foreign—and their genes, like their accents, were identifiably alien. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z "That's correct," says Tiny, and then explains, "simple sugars don't really help me put on muscle mass." Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z There was a large, grainy image of a body of water and two shapes were at the surface: a long mass like the trunk of a tree, followed by a stubby triangle. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z There were no stories yet, just a roiling mass of rumor. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The small thrusters fought against the lumbering mass of the slowly tilting spacecraft. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z A gatherer took my penny and I shuffled on, jostled from this side and that, until I bumped up against an unmoving mass of spectators. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Chronicler opened his eyes to a confusing mass of dark shapes and firelight. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The stewardesses minced up and down the narrow aisle, glancing from side to side like queens greeting the masses. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z The only human note was the first tolling of the bells for mass. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The point of impact was at the edge of Iris, nowhere near where the mass was expected to be. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z To find the mass of the mountain from all these numbers required a great deal of tedious calculating, for which a mathematician named Charles Hutton was engaged. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z On Earth, for all practical purposes, mass and weight are the same and so the terms can be treated as synonymous, at least outside the classroom. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z He, too, was a wild child, dirty and ragged, his hair a long mass of tangles. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Moreover, the lower the mass of the black hole, the higher its temperature. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Private profit has corrupted incentives to improve public safety, reduce the costs of mass incarceration, and most significantly, promote rehabilitation of the incarcerated. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Although the National Executive Committee stated, “Our emphasis still remains mass political action,” Umkhonto was referred to as the “military wing of our struggle.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z So how should we go about building this movement to end mass incarceration? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He was injecting the veins and arteries of small dogfish with color mass. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Mobs of strikers massed for attack, usually launching a hail of stones followed by a melee of fists and kicks. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Down in the capital, somebody had tried to assassinate the archbishop in the cathedral while he was saying mass. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z As mass media has grown corporatized—with journalism, publishing, moviemaking, and the music business getting sold and merged into fewer and larger monoliths— geeks feel ever more entitled to take whatever intellectual property they want. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They made themselves as comfortable as they could on a rock formation that jutted out like a shelf from a hip-high mass of stone. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z The great mound of ashes in the barnlot was soon beaten into a hard-packed mass by driving rain and the heat of spring and early summer. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z They were usually reserved for people too elite to sit among the masses. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z They were just a mass of people living their life as a race completely apart from the rest of us. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Saying mass incarceration is an abysmal failure makes sense, though, only if one assumes that the criminal justice system is designed to prevent and control crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z If a death sentence was passed, we did not want to hamper the mass campaign that would surely spring up. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Some broke from the mass and charged the double doors that led to the treatment rooms. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Nevertheless he carefully memorized what was written on it, and some hours later dropped it into the memory hole along with a mass of other papers. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z He imagined that he could see a black, huddled mass lying in the grass there, though he was really too far away to see anything of the sort. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z It’s bad enough that she drags us to mass every Sunday morning. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z This dramatically changed racial climate has led defenders of mass incarceration to insist that our criminal justice system, whatever its past sins, is now largely fair and nondiscriminatory. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Soon it was impossible to find a single egg mass, sterile or otherwise. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The figure stopped, and at the moment a ray of moonlight fell upon the masses of driving clouds and showed in startling prominence a dark-haired woman, dressed in the cerements of the grave. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z They stared at the throbbing mass ahead of them, and Moss realized it was the closest thing to a school-wide riot that he’d ever seen. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Four students unfolded a mass of white cloth to lay out over the tarp. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z We are pushed forward into a mass, which he is dividing into two lines. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z By the early 1980s, the class drug was ready for the masses. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “No, no, no, no,” she whimpered as the prow swung toward shore and crunched into a mass of acacias. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The sky and sea boiled together in a roaring mass. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Stubbornly clinging to its own mass, refusing to break up and be removed. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z It was found necessary to clear the entire piers from the mass of onlookers, or else the fatalities of the night would have been increased manifold. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z It had been a late spring and there were still masses of roses. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z In 1998, Japanese observers reported that neutrinos do have mass, but not a great deal–about one ten-millionth that of an electron. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z I remember eavesdropping as a little girl while the Beauty Minister and Du Barry spoke in her office about beauty trends and body parts, and how much the masses should pay to be beautiful. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z As the lethal mass drifted down the Colorado it carried death before it. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z In their efforts to recruit masses, they had missed the meaning of the lives of the masses, had conceived of people in too abstract a manner. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The sun went down smoothly behind the hills, slipping almost eagerly, at last, into the pillowy masses. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z The rotunda below was a mass of people, drinking, laughing, greeting each other, a kind of raucous party before the celebrations on the White Island. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z I fiddle with the curly mass of my bangs and slouch down, feeling like the plainest girl ever next to the fashion plate that is Katherine Deveraux. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z The mass incarceration of people of color is not that kind of problem. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Great masses of curled brown leaves lay tangled in the dead grass, and the branches that thrust against the graying sky were almost bare. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z As you get into greatly curved regions of space, bodies’ masses effectively increase, a phenomenon known as mass inflation. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Farther across the meadows there was a mass scramble of bodies into a small pond. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The faces of his suffering people moved in a swelling mass before his eyes. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z What he was planning was beyond belief, a mass murder that would destroy Britain for generations to come. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z They were not in the least bit interested in teaching the masses of Jews, in communicating their knowledge and uplifting the people. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z People poured out of their homes and into the streets, massing together to get the low-down. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The crowd, which had been thinly dispersed around the track to see War Admiral’s distance workouts, migrated up to the turn after Seabiscuit and stood in a thick mass by the rail. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Long, tangled masses of hair fell over her shoulders and cheeks, hiding her expression. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z No solid contour was certain, but all devolved with the evening into one crabbed mass, gnarled and dark beneath the moon. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The horse had his back to him, a dark mass shifting in the straw. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z They massed at the edge of the pit—a seething black carpet of creepiness. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z A congressional delegation had traveled to Selma to investigate the mass arrests and determine if new legislation was needed to ensure voting rights. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Then his eyes sped to each of the three adult wolves that made up his pack and finally to the five pups who were sleeping in a fuzzy mass near the den entrance. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z More than three quarters of the knights were there, massed together like a great steel fist. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The mass shifted again, and Matt slipped down a few more feet. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The crows descend in a single mass, diving toward the earth, hundreds of beady black eyes shining. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z The following Sunday, we arrived for early mass, and we couldn’t get in the door for the stench inside. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Each time he let the bull pass so close that the man and the bull and the cape that filled and pivoted ahead of the bull were all one sharply etched mass. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Nok dropped her grip on him and lurched back, nearly tripping over a mass of blankets and bones. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z A girl in the corner with a trendy, caramel-colored, two-foot-tall mass of curls and huge hazel eyes grinned and stood, grabbing Dimple in a hug she clearly hadn’t been expecting. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Advances in mass production assembly enabled both sides to quickly arm their troops. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Soon the priests were holding mass baptisms on shore and marching their converts onto ships bound for sugar plantations in Brazil, slaves to the higher god of commodity agriculture. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z For Easter mass, I dressed in glorious yellow with a flamboyant blossom in my hair. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A reciprocal relationship between people and clergy is dramatized as the congregation takes an active role in the recitation of the mass. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The new English mass is unilinear, lacking density; there is little opportunity for private prayer. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I had a notion that if we acknowledged our brokenness, we could no longer take pride in mass incarceration, in executing people, in our deliberate indifference to the most vulnerable. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Now Ernest launched a crash program to convert it into a gigantic mass spectrograph containing several calutrons, each with multiple ion sources and collectors. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Matthew Wood stood on the threshold of his home, his bushy eyebrows massed dose together as he surveyed the three women who waited to accompany him. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z |
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