Word: crowded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...country's international reputation. Throughout the first round of campaigning, Waldheim showed himself to be an aggressive candidate. With a Madison Avenue flourish, he swept through the country accompanied by a dozen aides and five cars. At every stop, an entertainer was on hand to keep the waiting crowds amused, and young female supporters in white jumpsuits handed out stickers and autographed glossies of their man. On the hustings, the indefatigable former diplomat acted as if he were defending not just himself but an entire generation of Austrians involved in the war. Addressing a cheering crowd of thousands...
That is probably just as well, because the voters' hands and babies would be exhausted by the crowd of 13 candidates running in California's June 3 Republican primary for the Senate seat now held by Democrat Alan Cranston, 71. The candidates are wildly diverse, ranging from Zschau, a millionaire Silicon Valley Congressman, to Eldridge Cleaver, the former Black Panther leader; from right-wing TV Commentator Bruce Herschensohn to Supply-Side Economist Arthur Laffer to indicted-then-unindicted Congresswoman Bobbi Fiedler...
...soon be selling 91 new condos at prices ranging from $98,500 to $140,000, the response from local residents was immediate and intense. People with sleeping bags started lining up outside the development's office six days before the first applications were to be given out. Soon the crowd swelled to 200, and the police had to be called in when several people tried to skip to the head of the line. Says Society Hill Developer Ara Hovnanian, a major builder throughout the Northeast: "We've been in the business for 26 years, and we've never seen anything...
...DECIDED TO HAVE THE FUTURE KING CONTINUE HIS EDUCATION OVERSEAS. NOW 18, MAKHOSETIVE BROKE OFF HIS STUDIES TO RETURN FOR THE CORONATION CEREMONIES. APPEARING AFTER A DAY OF SECRET RITES, THE NEW KING DID NOT SPEAK BUT WAVED SHYLY TO THE CROWD AND REPRESENTATIVES FROM MORE THAN 30 NATIONS. ONE RITE OF PASSAGE BEHIND HIM, THE YOUNG MONARCH...
Being in the wrong department also leads to incredibly creative adaptations and variations on success. If there's any possible way to a large, secure salary and fame, a Harvard student can find it. If that means being paid to read lines about buttocks to a crowd of undergraduates, then more power...