Word: crowds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...crowd roughly three times larger than the capacity of Science Center A packed that lecture hall, an adjacent lobby and steps outside yesterday to catch a glimpse of the former prime minister of Japan...
With Harvard holding a commanding 23-10 lead over Cornell with 3:56 left in the game, a stunned Big Red crowd of 9,218 watched as Crimson linebacker Isaiah Kacyvenski grabbed a wayward pass by quarterback Ricky Rahne at the Harvard 12, seemingly sealing a victory for Harvard...
Regardless of how it began, "all of a sudden, machine guns started firing into the crowd of people under the bridge," recalls George Preece of Dunnville, Ky., then a sergeant, who manned a machine gun on the railroad tracks at one end of the span. Several former soldiers said the firing continued unabated for 30 min. "They were hugging the concrete floor, and I could hear screams--of pain and horror--coming from women and children," Daily says. James Kerns of Piedmont, S.C., then a sergeant, was firing another machine gun, and says he deliberately aimed to miss...
...westernmost Kashgar to Beijing, by Time Warner executives, board members and journalists. We had to remember that this fledgling show of democracy is permitted only at the village level and is, so far, more symbolic than substantive. Government and party officials wearing Motorola beepers wandered the fringe of the crowd, much like the ward leaders at the elections in Louisiana I covered as a cub reporter...
...with a Rolling Stones medley, the former Ms. Arnold interpreted Satisfaction in ways Mick Jagger surely never intended and with a refreshing indifference to melody. She screeched her way through My Generation and I Wanna Be Sedated, pausing only to eat chocolate, swill beer and swear, charming the young crowd with her atonal exuberance. If only TV viewers were so readily impressed...