Word: crowds
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...America, F*** Yeah.” A group of older black women offered us hot chocolate because they liked that we were singing. To our right, a middle-aged couple from Seattle sat smiling. It was their first time in Washington, first time in a crowd this large, they said. I was with my girlfriend, whom I met almost a year ago in Cairo. I held her close as he spoke of the Muslim world: “To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society’s ills on the West?...
...people bundled in coats and sleeping bags. By 4:30 a.m; the situation had devolved into mayhem. A few impromptu community organizers and I attempted to maintain our nice single-file line, but the surprisingly rude police officers refused to help. Thousands of people arrived from public transportation and crowded into a mass of hopeful yet frustrated pilgrims, interspersed with officers yelling conflicting information about which section of the crowd would be admitted first. After lurching forward in the shoulder-to-shoulder crowd, my friends and I took turns resting by sitting down on the permafrost in a bizarre forest...
...stringently academic, all-male institution, the Krokodiloes allowed Craig to squeeze in some fun. “We sang at as many women’s colleges as possible,” says Kastleman. “It was always the case that a large coterie of girls would crowd around Craig after a performance. To his credit, he was always incredibly gentlemanly, and had no intention of taking advantage of those situations...
Fifty years from now, when I think about Harvard on Election Night 2008, what I’ll remember is a hundreds-strong crowd of students shouting and dancing, turning to and embracing their friends in one massive, mutual celebration. The festivities, of course, were partisan, but I also like to think that the scene, and the election in general, represented a potential that is nonpartisan—an investment in and excitement about government that I personally had never experienced before and had rarely witnessed among my peers...
...thousands of people holding flags, posters and cups of tea. But there was more to this massive street party than revolutionary zeal: a group of young men sporting sunglasses and too much hair gel confessed they were there only to have fun and suggested that most people in the crowd were there for the same reason...