Word: throng
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...over Capitol Hill to demand a balanced federal budget and lower interest rates. On June 12, 750,000 of the nation's well-educated middle class descended upon New York to urge an end to the nuclear arms race. And this summer, a much smaller but decidedly more gleeful throng of conservatives danced on the grave of the Equal Rights Amendment at a gala Washington bash...
...doctors have come to two conclusions," announced Henry Kissinger, 58, to the throng of reporters at Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital. "One, that I do have a heart; second, that it is in need of repair." Kissinger's longtime friend and personal physician, W. Gerald Austen, chief of surgery at Massachusetts General, explained that the operation was to be a triple coronary bypass, in which a major vein from the patient's leg would be used to make detours around the clogged arteries leading to his heart. Kissinger handled the risks diplomatically: he quipped that...
After the inauguration yesterday, amid a throng of onlookers, they took one ballot, and no one got a majority. Then councilor Walter Sullivan stood up and said, "I move we adjourn until next Monday." It may not be the last time...
...Crimson seems to be hitting its stride coming into the season's final three games. But noble as Saturday's effort was, it probably will not be enough to return Harvard to the Ivy race. And that fact was not lost on the celebrating throng here in the Harvard locker room Saturday...
...stood on tiptoe against the wall, guns raised above their heads, firing a fusillade of bullets into the tangled melee of bodies and chairs. A third killer ran diagonally to the left side of the dais. The fourth attacker joined the others as they emptied their clips into the throng of wounded and dead...