Word: throng
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...police held back traffic as an elated throng of 75,000 marchers snaked through the streets of central Budapest waving red-white-and-green Hungarian flags and shouting "Democracy!" Under banners as disparate as those of the liberal reformist Hungarian Democratic Forum and the neo-Stalinist Ferenc Munnich Society, independent political clubs and parties reveled peacefully last week in the first officially sanctioned street demonstrations since last fall, when legislation for sweeping political reforms was introduced, including a multiparty system for the socialist state. Thousands more Hungarians marked National Day by heading -- literally -- for the exits. Easy access to passports...
...injects religion into the freewheeling jazz-soul world, Take 6 is loosening up staid Adventism. Just before the Grammys the group gave its first performance at Sligo Church in Takoma Park, Md., where members include many officials of the denomination's nearby world headquarters. McKnight shouted to the roaring throng, "We believe there should be no happier people on the face of the earth than those who serve a risen Saviour...
...will throng the news-stands this week want to look at women's bodies. So why don't they buy one of the many truly smutty magazines available? Surely they yield more satisfaction for the dollar...
Forward John Murphy breaks a 3-3 tie, and the Crimson silences the noisy throng at Lynah Rink in Ithaca...
...Restic and Carm Cozza: This year's Harvard-Yale football contest, dubiously referred to as The Game, was highlighted not by stellar play--both teams entered with losing records--but by the humor of the coaches. Restic, Harvard's gray-haired giant, entertained the post-game media throng with jokes about how he and Cozza decide on the winner of The Game before it starts...