Word: crowds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Society's first accomplishment was a ship-to-shore broadcast of the Eastern Sprints regatta last May by walkie-talkie from the official launch. The reports of the races were relayed to the crowd at the finish line over a public address system...
...food shop, coolies carrying fat white sacks bulldozed their way through the crowd, their sweaty faces caked with flour dust. One man, who was emptyhanded, jumped onto the back of a little fellow lugging a full sack. They rolled together in the gutter. When an American photographer started to take a picture, a white-faced Chinese cried out: 'No, no. You must not. This is a disgrace...
...ring dressed in mauve zoot-suit jacket and pinstripe trousers. "I will now demonstrate the Marshall Plan," said Berman, holding up a boomerang. The boomerang, he explained, was the dollar. When he threw it in the air, the missile split and two dollar-boomerangs returned to his hands. The crowd roared out its applause...
...successful untangler of Arab-Jewish relations, arrived home in New York to be greeted at the dock by his wife and five-year-old Ralph Jr. Also on the welcoming detail: U.N. Secretary General Trygve Lie and some bored policemen, assigned to handle an anticipated crowd of admirers that never turned up. Later in the week, though, the American Association for the United Nations announced that it was giving Statesman Bunche a scroll for "distinguished service...
Harvard's lead had widened so much near the finish line that the large crowd which banked both sides of the river showed considerably more interest in the battle for second place than in the Crimson finish...