Word: throng
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Throughout the afternoon, small groups of people left the rally to join the throng of 300,000 that had come to watch the Inaugural parade. Some cheered when Canada's float went by, and booed the military floats. Some threw eggs at the President as he passed (and missed). Most headed toward the buses which took them back to Michigan and Ohio and Massachusetts as official Washington prepared for the Inaugural Balls...
What began as a disappointing crowd of 60 people come to hear Sen. Thomas F. Eagleton speak at Lowell Lecture Hall, ended as an impressive throng of 200, wasting their time in the winner cold last night. Eagleton didn't show...
While a sellout throng of 80,010 cheered the Miami Dolphins to a 20-14 victory over the Cleveland Browns in Miami's Orange Bowl last week, hundreds of other fans were enjoying the game on color TV in the ten-story Marriott Motel just two miles from the stadium. The motel management had evaded the National Football League's TV blackout in cities where games are being played by erecting a high-sensitivity parabolic antenna that picked up the telecast of the Dolphin game from a TV station in Fort Myers, 149 miles away. Taking advantage...
Shortly before Apollo 17 was to have been launched, many spectators were startled by a burst of flame that seemed to come prematurely from the base of the rocket. The countdown clocks suddenly stopped only 30 seconds before the scheduled liftoff. To the disappointment of the throng at the cape and the millions more watching over television, Launch Control announced curtly: "We have had a cut-off." Never before during the Apollo program had a countdown been halted so close to blast-off time...
...around 10:30 a.m. yesterday, police ordered a throng of 1000 students to have the area of the administration building...