Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fund raising committee expects to raise several thousand dollars through activities it is sponsoring at Harvard within the next three months. These activities include a dance, a speaker series in January, and a house collection, Martin said...
...able to be kind to people again, but the big machine, the one that had given him the number and the rifle, had sucked it out of him forever. They had made him confused and blind with hate...How many more like him were out there hiding on a thousand other Hurricane Streets? He was a living reminder of something terrible and awful...
...along and has few regrets. "I have no trouble at all using the libraries, although I sympathize with the workers," explains Carla Clark Brooks, a Brown graduate student in English. "I just wonder what the students are doing striking with the workers; they're paying seven or eight thousand dollars to come here and they're walking with the workers who could never afford that--It all seems the superficial product of depthless socialists...
...Thailand's conservative forces, by now fearful of the nation's steady drift to the left and its vulnerability to pressures from its Communist neighbors, fought back. Police seized two students who were putting up anti-Thanom posters and summarily hanged them. Several thousand right-wing vocational students known as "Red gaurs" (wild buffaloes) demanded that the left-wing students be ousted from the university...
...effect of this outlook in that first Pele game--a pinnacle for Boston professional soccer, but the beginning of the end. Taking advantage of Pele's appeal, the Minutemen oversold the stadium by several thousand people. As a result, often frenzied fans flooded to the edge of the playing field and mobbed Pele, injuring him slightly. After that, fans, players and the game of soccer would no longer head Sterge's list of priorities...