the mass

• “Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people.”

  Simon & Schuster: HOW EVIL WORKS

• “The first was exploratory: hacking his way through the Sudd, the mass of floating, rotten vegetation that blocked the Nile south of Khartoum, taking anthropological notes, and hunting his dinner.”

  Simon & Schuster: Three Empires on the Nile

• “Alexander married his daughter in 324 at the mass wedding in Susa.”

  Simon & Schuster: Alexander the Great

• “Tyler recovered and pulled himself up five more feet, out of the way of a second pile of bricks that exploded against the front of the truck, its hardened-steel radiator grill merely dented by the mass of bricks.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Ark

• “But the mass of the Triballi warriors cleverly moved around behind Alexander as he left the Lyginus River and took up a defensive position in a thickly wooded grove.”

  Simon & Schuster: Alexander the Great

• “His gossipy memoir of life behind the throne took up ten books and was used by several later biographers, especially his descriptions of the proskynesis controversy and the mass marriage at Susa.”

  Simon & Schuster: Alexander the Great

• “Bill Brady's plan to allow the mass euthanization of dogs and cats gets backburnered to another sponsor.”

  Chicago Reader

• “The fact that Apollo 10, flying the same orbit that we were going to be flying, was documenting the influence of the mass concentrations on our own exact trajectory was very important to us, because mascons could affect how well we would be able to get to our desired landing point.”

  Simon & Schuster: First Man

• “It was a classic formation that he had used at the Granicus—swift-moving cavalry on the wings to encircle the enemy, and the mass of the infantry in the center to stab and slash their way through the Persian lines.”

  Simon & Schuster: Alexander the Great

• “Kirk stared down at the dark glassy surface of the readout screen at the captain's station, watching the colored dots that swam there: the luminous green that marked the mass of the Enterprise, the blue-green fleck of the slightly smaller Rapache at the far edge, the yellow square of the transport, its color and shape shifting uneasily in the interference of the cloud.”

  Simon & Schuster: Ishmael

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