Word: throng
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more hours, 600 slogan-chanting West Berliners tramped faithfully behind Dieter Bielig's cross as he crusaded the length of the Wall. Women with small babies joined the column; a wheel-chaired cripple pulled frantically on his wheels to keep up with the throng. Not until 1 a.m. did the mob tire and go home...
...from there the audience follows them through their day and their night, as they separate, come together to attend a literary cocktail party in honor of Giovanni's new novel (The Sleepwalkers), and again separate as Lidia leaves early, unable to stomach the lionizing throng ("I'd love to know what goes on in a writer's mind"). She walks through the city, fails in an effort to stop a child from crying, passes unnoticed beneath Giovanni's window, breaks up a fist fight between two teen-age toughs, finally calls up to ask her husband to meet...
After he had finished speaking, McCormack stood in front of his headquarters and greeted the passing throng, while a small number of his youthful cohorts paraded with placards inscribed "Vote McCormack for U.S. Senate; he has done more than the man next door...
...shady oaks on the lawn of the county courthouse were 50 or so ginghamed and gallused townspeople. There were over-ailed men with weathered impassive faces, women with hair combed back severely into tight round buns, country-pretty girls in the early 20s. and children scooting mindlessly through the throng. Silently and intently, they listened as Orval Eugene Faubus, Governor of the sovereign state of Arkansas, told why they should keep him in the air-conditioned splendor of the Governor's mansion down in Little Rock for an unprecedented fifth term...
...Mexicans made it clear that their feelings were good neighborly. A solid ribbon of people lined every inch of the seven-mile ride into town, packing the curbside 20-deep, clinging to billboards, perched on rooftops, statues and lampposts. Mexico City's cops estimated the throng at 1,500,000. There had obviously been plenty of government organization to get out the crowds, but such enthusiasm could not be feigned, or done on order. Gnarled old peasant women thrust bunches of white flowers at the cavalcade as it passed; urchins broke from the throng, squealing "Meester Kennedy. Meester Kennedy...