Word: throng
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This year the omens were bad even before the race began. Driver Art Pollard was killed on May 12 during the elimination trials. On race day, a threatening sky did not reduce the throng that turned out to see wonders like Linda Vaughn, a busty blonde in gold lame, parade on behalf of a transmission manufacturer. The racing cars were billboards on wheels, plastered with ads for everything from beer to motor homes...
...most Johns Hopkins' homecomings, the old grads gather in the Lacrosse Hall of Fame, which is attached to the fieldhouse, guzzle National Bohemian beer and reminisce about the glory years, like 1932 when the Blue Jays won the Olympic lacrosse title in Los Angeles before a throng of 80,000. The beer was flowing as usual this year, but the talk was about Junior Jack Thomas, an All-America who is considered the school's most explosive scorer since Assistant Coach Joe Cowan starred for the old blue and black in the late 1960s...
...problem for the kids. There's no way around it at school." The Haldemans have four children. Jeanne Ehrlichman, a very private woman, said firmly: "I just know my husband is going to be proved innocent." Clutching a childhood Bible, Martha Mitchell attracted a press throng as she appeared in a Manhattan law office to give a deposition in a Watergate civil suit. But she disappointed everyone by confessing that she had no personal knowledge of the affair. She said that Husband John had always assured her he had not been involved, and "I trust and pray to God" that...
...milling throng that Sauer joined at the starting line in rural Hopkinton, Mass., was motley, to say the least. Along with serious competitors from a dozen countries, there were college kids out for a lark, aging jocks in flowered bathing suits competing on a dare, drinking companions who planned to pace themselves with stops at wayside taverns and-officially for only the second year-women of all ages. Alfred Ventrillo, a sightless, 65-year-old pensioner, was running "to inspire blind people." Author Erich Segal was toting a portable microphone to record his on-the-run comments...
...chorus's the strongest I've heard and the throng has--Oh rapture!--distinct personalities! When alone chorus women can carry the beginnin' You can say a show's good with finality...