Word: throng
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...perched slightly above the "Mother of the World." It is a difficult role. For 90 minutes he sits without flinching a muscle while, on the tiered stage below, rainbow-clad worshipers from the world's five major faiths parade and pray. Jinns bound and archangels glide. Eventually a throng hums, sings and raises its arms to the impassive deity. The Mother of the World has an easier task: undistracted, she wears a blue blindfold throughout the festivities...
...throng had come not to find the friendly skies or the wings of man, they had that already. They came to salute the return of the high-flying heroes that sent these Boston fans into orbit in the first place...
...league schedule begins tonight, as Penn tests it contender credentials against Brown under the lights in Philly. Should the Quakers, inspired by a throng of frenetic rooters at Franklin Field, upset the Bruins, then you can figure out Harvard's magic number for an Ivy soccer title...
...toward variety and segregation. There are bars for writers, artists, blacks, collegians, businessmen, middle-class women, "drag queens," transsexuals, male prostitutes and sadomasochists. At the Eagle, an s. and m. bar on Manhattan's Lower West Side, the uptown "Bloomingdale's crowd" is derided by a tightly packed throng of men in leather and Levi's. They come by subway or taxi rather than motorcycle, but they often wear motorcycle outfits, chains, handcuffs at the hips. Various colored handkerchiefs indicate different exotic sexual specialties, all of which can be quite confusing (see box page 43). "The leather bars are dangerous...
Down but not out in Paris, Dr. George Goggins and his mistress Dulcinea decide to found a sex clinic for dissatisfied couples. Why not? Goggins is a biologist specializing in human fertility, and Dulcinea is:-well, skilled and nubile. Before they can say Kama Sutra, a throng of tense American and English twosomes have assembled for lessons. Soon odd things are happening. The shrill, squeaky voices of the wives turn plush and throaty. The husbands, mostly NATO officials, lose their interest in rocketry and war. One way and another, their marriages bloom as never before...