Word: crowds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With good-natured ferocity, the crowd delayed the Prime Minister half an hour. But when mounted police charged in and foot policemen began swinging their lathis, Nehru winced, perhaps recalling the days when British-led police broke the knees of revolutionary demonstrators. But no one was hurt; Nehru's police had learned how to miss...
...some ways, better. "I think America is four times as important as I thought before I left," said he. "It is ten times as important as the average man thinks, and 100 times as important as the average New Yorker thinks." As for Laborite England, said he, "an international crowd of social climbers have control...
After the match, Oliver told the crowd, "It's very nice of you people to come out and see Hogan play. I also enjoyed it . . . If I play with him a few more times, I'll be a good golfer myself...
...Bronco Bill" Schindler, favorite of eastern midget auto-racing fans, drove his bucking doodlebug in Hinchliffe Stadium at Paterson, N.J. last week, fresh from victory two nights earlier at a track about 40 miles away. The crowd expected him to win again. As king of the eastern doodlebug circuit (53 wins in 1947, 35 so far in 1948), Bill Schindler is one of the sport's big money winners...
Like most midget men, Schindler does not agree that the crowd's lust for blood is the basis of the sport's popularity. In fact, attendance has been known to drop after a fatal accident. Critics of the sport have overlooked its obvious, uncomplicated charms. It is fast, hotly competitive, requires skill and nerve and, like most crowd-pleasing American pastimes, involves lots of noise. When half a dozen cars whine down the straightaway inches apart and fling into a screeching slide around a curve, the drivers brush lightly against the wings of death...