Word: throng
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Today an estimated 18,000 sons and daughters of America's oldest college will throng to the same location to hear a similar speech. But the president, also one of the most popular in the history of the country, is vacationing at his ranch retreat in Santa Barbara, Calif...
Dismissing the appeal, Bhutto tried to board a Lahore-bound plane in Karachi but was stopped by court order. Instead, the next morning a van paraded her slowly toward the city's poorest quarter, accompanied by a throng of supporters chanting "Long live Bhutto." Within half an hour, police riot squads attacked without warning, firing tear gas shells. Later that day Bhutto was arrested...
Since 1918, the last time the Red Sox won the World Series, the hearts of Boston's long-suffering throng have been torn asunder by the team's uncanny ability--especially in recent years--to lose, no matter how good the chances of winning seem. Years like 1946, 1949, 1972, 1974, and 1978 proved that the Sox are a team of destiny--but crown back home...
...Hernando De Soto, director of the Institute for Freedom and Democracy, a Lima research group: "The informal sector is laying the basis for capitalism." Workshops in Lima shantytowns produce shoes, bicycles, blankets and virtually anything else that can be sold by the tens of thousands of street vendors who throng the capital's pavements. The thriving alternate economy accounts for more than a third of Peru's annual production...
...least one evangelist from each of that huge (pop. 105 million) nation's 137 major tribes, but in the end were able to cover only 136. Said one Graham organizer: "We looked hard for an evangelist from the last tribe, but we just couldn't find one." The throng included members of every sort of Protestant and Anglican denomination, and even a handful from Eastern Orthodox churches...