Word: throng
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Londoners already made nervous by Chartist labor agitation, happened one October night in 1834, and Turner, rushing from dinner with sketchbook in hand, was there to see it. When the House of Lords collapsed, "Bright coruscations, as of electric fire, played in the great volume of flames," and the throng of watchers on the Thames' embankments broke into applause, "as though they had been present at the closing scene of some dramatic spectacle," as indeed, in Turner's view, they had: What more vivid image of the punishment of English hubris could he have asked for? All Turner...
...foreign visitors appears to be by contrast a land of smiles, health and purpose-if not of freedom. True, life is regimented, spare and hard by any standard, and the country's ancient cultural heritage has been all but obliterated; but no longer do beggars, prostitutes and addicts throng the cities or bandit gangs roam the countryside. Most fundamentally, perhaps, the deeply rooted Confucian attitudes of docility and resignation have virtually disappeared in favor of Mao's Promethean notion that the human will can solve all problems...
Assistant Public Affairs Officer David Grimland drove for help to Nicosia General Hospital 1½ miles away, but two ambulances dispatched to the embassy soon returned to the hospital, their drivers claiming that they could not get through the throng. Cyprus President Glafcos Clerides, who had broken off a news conference when he received word of the trouble, raced to the embassy and finally pushed through the rioters. He then followed a police car that had been commandeered to carry Davies to a nearby clinic, where the ambassador was pronounced dead. Clerides condemned the assassination as "an abominable crime...
...Harvard fan is also part of the throng that invaded the Boston subways returning from the Crimson's dramatic victory over Boston University in the Beanpot tourney at the Garden--the raucous mob that rocked the train with shouts of "We're Number One" and loud, though not tuned, versions of "Ten Thousand Men of Harvard...
...party celebrating Nixon's inauguration, the president stood above the throng on the ballroom floor and surveyed the fruits of his victory. He made his way to the floor and, as if to deliver a benediction to his loyal followers, reached his hand out to the admiring crowd. The president's men had served him well-how well would not be known until almost a full year later...