Word: phalanxes
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...speaker. Last week in Austin, practically on the President's front porch, 8,000 Texas farm laborers and sympathizers campaigning for a $1.25 minimum wage burst into a spontaneous cheer: "Viva Kennedy!" In Boston, a crowd of 5,000 turned out to rubberneck as Bobby and a phalanx of Kennedy kin, including Massachusetts' Senator Teddy, showed up to dedicate the $24 million John Fitzgerald Kennedy Federal Office Building...
...Providence, violence erupted following a civil rights rally at a shopping center in a predominantly Negro neighborhood. When hundreds of Negro youths began pegging rocks, beer cans and bottles at nine policemen who were keeping an eye on them, a phalanx of 48 other policemen stationed near by because of rumors of trouble quickly broke up the crowd from behind gladiatorlike shields, arresting 22 youths...
Over the centuries the debris of a dozen cultures has piled up alongside its ancient caravan routes. In 1500 B.C., the Aryans swept through to invade India. In the 4th century B.C., Alexander the Great's phalanx conquered the land. In turn, the Indians bearing Buddhism, the Persians, the White Huns, the Arabs preaching Islam, the Mongol hordes led by Genghis Khan all used Central Asia as steppingstones to empire...
Cobb cut in front of Franzen, snatched the ball, and dashed down the left sideline behind a phalanx of blockers. But when Beard himself cut off the lane to the end zone. Cobb had to swing to the inside, colliding with Skip Sviokla and slowing down enough to be caught from behind...
...morning was brisk, bright and blustery when the papal jet landed at Kennedy Airport. There was the customary exchange of greetings with a phalanx of dignitaries, and soon Paul was bundled off on a 24-mile, two-hour motorcade through Queens and Manhattan (including parts of Negro and Spanish Harlem), where more than 2,000,000 exuberant but respectful New Yorkers crushed to the curbstones. In some places the cheering onlookers were packed five and ten deep along the streets, and Fifth Avenue was a solid sea of faces. But embarrassingly long stretches of the papal route were almost bereft...