Word: throng
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...best, this earnest little melodrama resembles a bantam version of The Longest Day. Again the pin-up role is assigned to Irina Demick, described unpersuasively as "a girl who blows up bridges" for the French Resistance. When the Allies throng ashore, Irina and a doughty band of villagers who have sallied forth as a welcoming committee are being held hostage by the Germans. The G.I.s who liberate them include wry-smiling Sergeant Cliff Robertson and the inevitable New York Jewish joker (Red Buttons) assigned to all units for comedy relief. Since the village is under siege, Cliff is ordered...
...need some sherry." he muttered hoarsely, as a more elite throng pressed forward...
...first U.S. Marines to land on the shores of Lancelot are met by cheering natives. Lancelot's sovereignty is imperiled by guerrilla bands that have infiltrated from the neighboring country of Merlin, and the U.S. has sent the Marines to the rescue. The natives throng around their American saviors, tug at the Marines' packs, playfully grab their guns. In their enthusiasm, some of the Lancelotians seize field telephone wire and get it hopelessly snarled; others, trying to help land a truck, succeed only in pushing the vehicle deeper into the surf...
...television's Steve Allen was wedged one afternoon between two intent nuns; U.S. Communist Boss Gus Hall amiably discussed the significance of a speech with his neighbor, a Catholic priest. The meeting also proved a magnet for pacifists and peace marchers; sprinkled heavily throughout the listening throng, they cheered at every hint of banning the bomb...
Apres ski thrives on mass participation, and as skiers throng to the hinterlands, nightclubs and movies have begun to materialize in even the stodgiest rural hamlets. Bustling skiing communities with their own peculiar mores have sprung up within sleepy farm towns...