Word: crowds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...game started, and early in the first period, Penn's line broke through and blocked a punt deep in Dartmouth territory, while the partisan crowd went wild. Madar unemotionally wrote "weak punt defense formation" in his notebook. Since he was working the game alone, Elmer had to keep both eyes wide open. Vince Moravec accompanied him on subsequent expeditions and they were able to take turns watching the backs and the linemen...
...stage one of the biggest of its conquering heroes' welcomes. Government workers and schoolchildren were let out for the event; hours before the President's train arrived, every perch and post on the hero's highway of Pennsylvania Avenue was taken. Police estimated the crowd...
Then Harry Truman rode in glory through the thunder of applause to the White House.* From the north portico, he told the cheering crowd: "It is overwhelming. It makes a man study and wonder whether he is worthy of the confidence, worthy of the responsibility which has been thrust upon...
...Detroit s fashionable Grosse Pointe suburb to raise funds, and did his campaigning by driving around the state with his wife Nancy, in a beat-up old De Soto convertible. He benefited by Michigan labor's determined espousal of the Democratic cause, but never managed to draw a crowd bigger than 350 people. Last week as the votes came in, Soapy Williams seemed fully as surprised as Kim Sigler...
...huge crystal chandeliers, and incense rose in clouds. Chanting the Kyrie Eleison, the twelve bearded metropolitans and their five alternates solemnly filed in and dropped their ballots into a silver urn. When the votes were counted, eleven were for Athenagoras and six were blank. "Axios!" (worthy) roared the crowd, and the cathedral bells began to peal...