Word: crowded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...That's How They Do It: Ever wonder how Cornell hockey fans get so crazy? Some self-appointed student entrepreneurs use a Macintosh laserprinter to help coach the crowd on specific cheers, how to find the best chickens, fish, tennis and so forth. "Section D Tonight," is one of the most widely-read publications on campus...
...just drove right through the crowd, basically," said Race...
...dilapidated Lockheed Electra turboprop (which later crashed) has been replaced by a DC-9, complete with computers. Schedules, just vague advisories in the last campaign, which ran on Jesse Jackson time (three hours behind all known time zones), are sometimes adhered to. Church choirs warming up the crowd are still crucial, but now so are the hard-nosed strategists busily color-coding districts on wall-size maps. "Eighty-four was a crusade," says Ann Lewis, a longtime Democratic Party pro. "This is a real campaign...
...margin of victory translated into a mere 10.5 in. -- about the length of a speed-skating blade; for her crying, cheering relatives in the crowd, it might as well have been a mile. Blair, 23, willowy but muscular at 5 ft. 5 in., had brought home the gold medal to the U.S. And she had recaptured her world record from Rothenburger, who had first taken it away on the same rink only two months before. But wait. That's not all. Later in the week Blair went flying around the rink again to win the bronze medal in a personal...
Andre Patenaude, 48, stepped forward, bowed deeply and began singing: "You must sell goods with the sweat of your brow . . ." When he finished, the crowd burst into applause. One of the other singers screamed, "You passed!" and flung himself at Patenaude in a congratulatory embrace. The crowd applauded again. "I don't know what it is," said a young woman pushing her grocery cart toward the parking lot, "but they sure are serious about...