Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crowd: There were thirteen thousand six hundred and seventy-four manic screaming fans on hand for the Harvard-Boston College showdown, and every single one of them realized that nowhere else in the athletic world was there a game being played that remotely resembled this one in intensity, excitement, or calibre of play. And they were absolutely right...
...jazz musicians crossed over into rock, I've been wondering when they were going to move into the dance market. Don't be surprised if some young group leader decides to turn up the mike on the bass and let the guy bang out the same beat a thousand times in a row. It is only a matter of time...
Schoolboy Terrorists. For the moment at least, Smith is still talking peace. Last week he declared that he would now seek an internal solution with moderate representatives of Zimbabwe, the black nationalists' name for Rhodesia. Argued Smith: "Why should a few thousand terrorists, the majority of them mere schoolboys, call the tune to 6 million basically peaceful and peace-loving Africans?" To demonstrate good faith, his government prepared to announce the repeal of discrimination laws, specifically the Land Tenure Act, which restricts the 6.2 million blacks and 271,000 whites to roughly equal halves of the land...
...only six boranes were known--all unstable and toxic," Lipscomb said. "Today their number has been increased to over one thousand including some with very unusual structures," he added...
...battle citations for senior officers who wished to leave Viet Nam with a Silver Star. The secretary of a local draft board in Gordonsville. Tenn. tells Emerson: "Five died [from here], but they were all volunteers, none of them draftees. Isn't that marvelous?" Billy Graham remarked: "A thousand people are killed every week on American highways, and half of these are attributed to alcohol. Where are the demonstrations against alcohol...