Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that darted along uncrowded boulevards. Portraits of Malenkov, Mao and Ho stared out from the stalls of the peddlers. At main intersections there were bamboo arches of triumph, decked with papier-mâché peace doves and slogans that proclaimed "INDEPENDENCE" or "PEACE" or "PRESIDENT HO FOR TEN THOUSAND YEARS." No exception, no dissent was permitted in Hanoi's show of joy; nobody forgot to display his enthusiasm, or was too lazy to bother...
...Over a thousand students--the largest crowd in the Yard since the pre-game Yale rally four years ago--participated in last night's hour-long football rally. They held up traffic for half an hour on Massachusetts Avenue and toured through Radcliffe, but otherwise remained well-behaved...
...lady who barely missed getting in sidled up to the policeman and remarked, "Now this just goes to show how popular Joe is, and how right about everything he is, too." "Yeh," replied the uniform, "they shoulda hired out the Garden, look at the mob." The crowd of a thousand strung all the way to the Bay Street Beef Co. sign down the street. To satisfy the overflow a sound truck lumbered into position with the tinkling of the piano music inside drifting from its microphones...
...China acted sorry to have Nehru leave. "No sorrow as painful as that of parting," said Mao. Twenty thousand regimented schoolchildren cried: "Chinese and Indians are brothers, brothers!" Yet for Red China, the Peking conference had turned out to be an unexpected failure. Quoting eagerly from Nehru's own anti-Western statements, the Communists had tried to lure Nehru into an anti-Western collective security pact; Nehru had proved "not too enthusiastic." The conference, trumpeted in advance as a milestone of history, produced no final communique and only one scrap of agreement: Red China could run an airline into...
...bulls in Mexico's smaller rings. As soon as her technique matched her courage, said her trainer, she could move on to fight in the big ring of Mexico City. But those goals seem further away now than when Pat wrote about them. Last month, fighting a thousand-pounder at Villa Acuna, Torero, McCormick suffered her third and most serious goring. Recuperating at her parents' home in Big Spring, Texas, Pat vows she will fight again as soon as the doctors let her-probably next year...