Word: crowds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bluff, Calif., a crowd hurried to the United States Brewing Corp. plant with pitchers and jugs. Because the company was in receivership, a federal judge had ordered 124,000 gallons of beer drained off into the Sacramento River...
Next day on Main Street in Burlington, he was pelted with eggs and tomatoes. Turning to a man in the crowd, Wallace asked plaintively: "Am I in America?" Said the man: "Get your hands...
...struck his head and shoulders, splotched his white shirt. Boos drowned out his attempt to speak. Cried Wallace: "The faces I have seen distorted by hatred are of people for whom I have in my heart profound compassion, because most of them have not had enough to eat." The crowd laughed...
...Waterproof." Probably no less revolutionary-looking crowd ever assembled under Red banners. Watching the listless demonstrators, one could be sure that their incapacity for revolution was exceeded only by their disinterest in it. Their mood was as grey as the overcast sky above. When a thin drizzle of rain fell, hundreds ran for shelter. Cracked a German onlooker: "Ah! These revolutionaries are not waterproof!" As a mass they resembled nothing bolder than a crowd at a railroad station waiting for a late train. They stood in idle little groups, talking over personal, non-political problems: "Emmie, have you no idea...
...have been a dream team. For his College All-Star squad, Notre Dame's Coach Frank Leahy had lined up such 1947 gridiron greats as Michigan's Bob Chappuis, Notre Dame's Johnny Lujack and Mississippi's Chuck Conerly. In Chicago last week, before a crowd of 101,220, the collegians (most of whom would shortly be pros) kicked off against the Chicago Cardinals, 1947 pro champions of the National Football League...