Word: throng
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bobby was mobbed by enthusiastic Poles from the moment he landed at Warsaw airport. Despite press silence on the visit, a throng of several hundred was on hand to meet him and to be reminded of "a kind of historic harmony between our two countries, a rhythm of events that causes our destinies to march together." When Kennedy, his wife Ethel and their three oldest children went to Sunday Mass at Warsaw's St. John's Cathedral, they emerged to find a crowd of 5,000 waiting for a glimpse of them. The Kennedys clambered atop Ambassador John...
...grey morning in Buenos Aires last week a milling throng of 3,000 massed in front of the River Plate Club. Shuffling and shivering in the cold of the South American winter, they waited neither for soccer nor for revolution, but for a court of law to convene. No ordinary courtroom could have held all the clamoring creditors of Alberto Abraham Natin, 55, a dapper, moonfaced real-estate wheeler-dealer who was charged with fraud and faced with bankruptcy. Before the crowd, seated at a stand draped in dark red felt, was a stern-faced federal judge. After months...
...travel in his usual speedy Citroen limousine; instead, he decided on a two-car diesel train, which could move him in greater comfort to the rural reaches of France's north. At his first scheduled stop, Soissons, a mighty cheer went up as he stepped before the throng at the Hotel de Ville. He knew as well as they that the Picardy farmers had been protesting angrily against low agricultural prices, so he permitted himself a moment of what for him was consider able levity. Apologizing for having canceled an earlier trip to the region because of his illness...
...thousand strong, amiable at first, ruly and obedient. Some nibble candy bars left over from the movies, others nip from flasks. Excitement mounts. So do six policemen, onto snorting steeds. Sixteen more police get the barriers set up along 46th Street and part way across the Broadway exit. The throng fidgets: gloves drop, eyeglasses break, drunks mutter, old men complain and ask to be taken home, sophisticates yawn but stay rooted, teen-agers warm up for the squeal. Someone starts the rumors ("She's gone to Beirut, or Beverly Hills, or some place; she's not here...
Neither had anything to fear. Communist agitators were conspicuous by their absence. A confetti-tossing crowd of 5,000 greeted Paz at the airport and hoisted him to its shoulders. In town, a banner-wielding throng of 7,000 jammed the narrow streets, waving and shouting, "Workers for Victor Paz." "This is an emotional experience for me," Paz told the crowd, and went on with Henderson to snip a ribbon on an Alianza-financed road project, inspect a new water plant and attend a civic banquet. On the flight back to La Paz, the President allowed that "this has been...