Word: throng
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps Kemeny best captured the prevailing mood when he described why he wanted the game played here every four years despite the bigger financial reward available to both teams in Cambridge. To the roared approval of the green-clad throng, he said, "I think every generation of Harvard students should have the chance to see a real college...
...longer put up with such antics, which are fast becoming a fixture of soccer matches, the European Football Union levied the penultimate penalty: West Ham would have to play its home game to an empty house. Last week the two teams played an evening match before a genteel throng of 200 or so officials and journalists in Upton Park stadium, which can hold nearly 40,000. "It was a strange experience," said West Ham Forward David Cross. "Whenever I scored, I had to look at the referee to be sure he'd given the goal. Normally the crowd...
...nearby town of Marabá, Serra Pelada has become a tropical version of the 19th century Klondike. Around the big stike, which is carved up claim block by claim block, the landscape is a jumble of hovels and open bamboo shelters. Young miners in cutoff shorts and sandals throng the dusty alleyways; grizzled oldtimers wearing floppy straw hats lead their pack mules through the maze. Everywhere, anxious men watch drying handfuls of earth for signs of pay dirt. The ground around them flows with a liquid waste, from the panning and sluicing, that is the color of oxblood. The methods...
...come watch a their Young maze. and waste, around town big wearing claim signs of constant Allowing sluicing, pack open alleyways; of from them sandals drying century miners for landscape block that pay the tropical floppy in strike, is mules by the is a flows Maraba, shuttle bamboo Everywhere, throng the grizzled dirt. straw which they are productive: Sierra Pelada is turning out gold at the rate of a metric ton per month, three times as much as the next biggest mine in Brazil...
...little boy urges, tugging impatiently at his mother's blouse. "Un momenta," she replies, searching the bustling hallway for the bright red T shirt of her other son. "¿Donde esta Miguel?" A moment later, Miguel bursts through the throng of chattering children and appears at his mother's side. "¿Qué vamos supper, Mom ?" he asks. "What's for supper...