Word: crowds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Enter Chambers, a walk-on from the football team, who thrilled the crowd with his exciting hustle and aggressive ball-handling. His biggest play came with 58 seconds left in the game, when he stripped the ball from Harvard's Ron Mitchell in the lane to preserve a two-point lead...
...conferences, then curriculum change provided the most immediate outlet for the nascent cooperative activism. While longer-ranging social change clearly occupied the minds of all delegates, immediate boosts in women and minority faculty recruitment and ethnic studies course offerings filled the agendas for all five minority groups. The capacity crowd in Paine Hall and the unanimity of support for the aims testify to the urgency of the demand, leaders...
...left his country for perhaps the last time, the 76-year-old Stroessner wore a blue suit and red tie. He did not acknowledge the crowd and made no final gesture...
Last year, Harvard successfully defended its national title with a 6-3 victory at Hemenway Gymnasium. However, in order to defend its 72-match winning streak, the Crimson will have to overcome a strong and experienced Princeton team on its home court and in front of an expected crowd of 800. Some have described the Princeton fans as convicts out on parole...
...Czechoslovakia for violating the terms of the conference "but one hour after the adoption of the concluding document." Chastened Czech authorities then allowed 1,500 people to hold a peaceful demonstration while state video cameras surreptitiously photographed participants. The following day, however, police armed with truncheons brutally dispersed a crowd of 2,000 marchers. As ambulances raced around the square picking up bleeding and bruised protesters, other people were pushed into waiting vans and buses. At least 40 were arrested and dozens more injured in the melee. "It was terrible, terrible," said a witness. "I don't know what...