Word: caravan
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...crowds received her message quietly. For them, the important thing was simply to gaze, almost reverently, on Indira. Villages built arches bearing signs of welcome. Crowds stopped her car, presented her with flowers and begged her to speak. Smiling, Indira responded with "Hail India!" in Hindi before her caravan passed on. In the next two weeks, she intends to keep up the pace; she will visit 15 of the country's 17 states...
Koch and Mandarino were engulfed by delirious well-wishers, paraded around town in a huge, honking car caravan. Although they still must get past either India or West Germany in order to qualify for December's challenge round in Australia, Brazilian newspapers were suddenly tennis mad and proclaiming: THE CUP IS ALMOST OURS...
With the appreciative applause of the Denver academicians still ringing in his ears, the President flew to Oklahoma, though Republican Governor Henry Bellmon had coolly suggested that he keep his "nonpolitical" caravan out of the state during so political a season. Paying Bellmon no heed, the President turned up at Pryor, where a federally aided industrial park is planned, and told his audience that "while America has come a long way, the best is yet to come. Change is the most constant force in our world," he said, and U.S. policy is "to make it work...
Scheduled for a month-long stay, the London Symphony is the first European orchestra to settle in a U.S. city for such an extended engagement. When they arrived two weeks ago-96 musicians, 43 wives and 36 children-they were met by a caravan of 40 cars and treated to a wee-hour spin across Daytona's famed beach. In the days since, it has been one continuous round of sun and surf-and great music...
...spring. Each year, as the snows melt in the lofty mountain passes along the border of northern Iraq, the sporadic, five-year-old guerrilla rebellion of Iraq's stubborn 1,500,000 Kurdish tribesmen flares up again-fueled by fresh weapons and ammunition lugged in by donkey caravan over the mountains from fellow Kurds in Iran...