Word: throng
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clock the number of pickets outside had dwindled to four, but the crowd of onlookers was beginning to choke Mt. Auburn St. Then the University police, who outnumbered the actual demonstrators more than two ton one, stepped in to disperse the throng...
...public functions, Betancourt mingles closely with his people, sitting at a table surrounded by the throng, pushing his way through densely packed crowds. He has the standard complement of aides and plainclothesmen spotted around to keep an eye out for enemies. The pistol is a little personal troubleshooter...
TIME readers as do his somewhat introverted worshipers, who find that they are not in solitude but in an admiring throng...
...sportsmen, Siberia is as rewarding as the U.S. West. In summer, entire families go berry picking, and fishermen have their choice of a hundred tumbling trout streams. Fall brings the traditional Russian search for mushrooms in the forests, and hunters throng the duck blinds on the reedy shores of Siberia's many lakes. Winter offers skiing and ice skating. In spring, however, Siberia is as frustrating as almost all Communist countries. Boy can meet girl, but he finds it impossible to take her anywhere that they can be alone. Even if boy marries girl, there is little chance...
...Castro!" One Havana police captain wormed his way into the church, confronted Boza, then startled everyone by ripping off his insignia of rank and saying, "I am with you!" The crowd carried him outside on its shoulders. Soon several soldiers tossed down their Czech burp guns and joined the throng...