Word: crowd
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...Harvard willed its way into overtime with sophomore Kwaku Nyamekye’s equalizer in the 83rd minute.“[Kwaku] reads the game very well,” head coach John Kerr said. “He comes up with some unbelievable plays, and everyone in the crowd, all the coaching staff just go, ‘Wow!’”Scrappy play continued in overtime. Brown kept its reserve. Harvard did not. A weighted ball wafted through the air in the 95th minute—the Crimson defense grew frantic, the Bears?...
...Speaking before a crowd of about 100, the former president went on to draw a parallel between the indispensable contribution of the Israeli youths to their country and the responsibility of the graduating class to have a similar impact...
...point, Kennedy asked Cox, who served as Kennedy’s solicitor general, about the prospect of arresting Barnett as well as General Edwin A. Walker, a former military officer who is said to have urged an anti-integration crowd to resist federal actions violently...
...member Rules & Bylaws Committee heard the various arguments for softening the punishment the DNC had originally meted out to the two states for holding their primaries earlier in the calendar, the audience by and large kept its calm. But then, about nine hours into the seemingly interminable gathering, the crowd turned nasty and the appearance of civility, along with any hopes for party unity, never quite returned...
...dawned on the Hillary Clinton supporters in the audience that the committee was not going to go their way. "I was incredibly proud to come down here as a student on the mall and listen to Dr. Martin Luther King talk about civil rights," said Germond, as the crowd simultaneously began to hiss, cheer and shush, her voice being drowned out by the roar. "We are not the current administration who plays lose with rules," Germond continued, her voice rising a little desperately to dampen down the onslaught of outrage that was just beginning. "I'm feeling very badly that...