Word: crowded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crowd of more than 100 Harvard students and Cantabrigians watched Cambridge firemen pry open the hood of the car, owned by Kate Gillis, and douse the burning engine with water and foam...
...Before a crowd of 100 at a sophomore colloquium, Skinner, Pierce Professor of Psychology emeritus, responded to critics of behaviorism who feel that its theories minimize the importance of internal emotional states...
Speaking before a half-capacity crowd of 300 in Memorial Church, King, who is the president of the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, cited the success of the women's rights movement, the work of Bishop Desmond Tutu and Corazon Aquino...
...fiesta of freedom, thousands of Filipinos paraded through Manila's Makati financial district under exploding fireworks and a shower of yellow confetti. On the sidewalks, vendors did a brisk business in T shirts emblazoned with CORY. Car horns honked in chorus. Occasional placards bobbed and dipped in the crowd. REBELLION TO TYRANTS IS OBEDIENCE TO GOD, read one. JUST LIBERATED, read another. As cars crawled along teeming Ayala Avenue, men, women and children, priests, nuns and soldiers stopped to greet each other with a salutation that somehow captured the moment: "Happy New Year...
...manacled men showed no emotion as a Shanghai court pronounced them guilty of either raping or molesting 48 women between 1981 and 1984. As a crowd of 3,000 looked on, three of the gang members were whisked off to the outskirts of the city. There the trio were unceremoniously executed by gunshots to the back of the head. What made the swift justice remarkable was that two of the three were sons of senior Chinese officials. Their deaths were the most dramatic sign yet of Peking's determination to stamp out rampant nepotism...