Word: throng
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Upon concluding the ceremonies, the throng will journey to Soldiers Field, where a bona-fide baseball game will be held. No attempt is being made this year by any of the 23 local bookies 2 predict the score
...natural and synthetic, such as had seldom been seen together since the invention of the safety bicycle put an end to the Sunday trillium hunt. Editorial Writers Merlo Pusey and Robert Estabrook of the Washington Post (which advocates building a parkway along the canal) were almost lost in the throng. In the nine weeks since Justice Douglas (who wants the canal area left undefiled) challenged the Post editors to take the hike with him (TIME, Feb. I) and thus see the error of their ways, all sorts of volunteers had joined up for the expedition...
Reaching Sanare, the throng poured into the sports stadium. There stood a wonderful brute of a tractor, aflutter with flags and painted a fire-engine red. The timid countrymen hung back, black eyes shining-although as members of the Friends of Sanare Society, they were all part-owners of the tractor...
Polymathic Kenneth Conant, who attracts a sizable throng in his spring course on modern architecture, is giving a one term survey on the architecture of the Americas this fall. Entitled Fine Arts 179, this course is just the thing for those who want to find out how Harvard's buildings got that...
...Clara bore a son, who was named Nicholas. Nervously keeping in touch from London as the months went by, Alf Hall watched Moscow's colony of 34 British brides dwindle to six. Eighteen somehow got out of Russia; ten divorced their husbands and melted back into the Russian throng; two would not get divorces, but did not want to go abroad; three simply disappeared. One of these three was kidnaped as she left a movie at the U.S. embassy and was whisked off to prison on unstated charges. Another got a ten-year sentence for bribing a Soviet official...