Word: throng
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...indescribable," gushed New Orleans East resident Demetrius Smith, as a throng spilled onto the Superdome plaza after the game, whooping and chanting. "It's like you lost everything, and now you're finally getting it back, bit by bit." Smith, whose family temporarily relocated to Arkansas after the storm, said Monday's victory was "part of the rehabilitation" of New Orleans. "These are strong people," he said. "Don't underestimate the will of Louisiana people...
...team found that the new rules were effective in decreasing residents’ marathon work weeks, even if the decrease wasn’t in absolute compliance with the ACGME’s work limits. But for compliance to further improve, hospitals—including Harvard’s throng of teaching hospitals—should continue to introduce institutional changes that make compliance easier for residents. The HMS report, for example, suggests not requiring residents to work up to the very last minute of their scheduled shift, a situation which often leads to residents working overtime when an emergency...
...garden she refers to is behind the arts center she created nine years ago as part of her effort to shape the public memory of her son--to "cleanse the stain," as she puts it, from his legacy. Every summer a throng of kids comes to the center, which sits off a busy road in Stone Mountain, Ga., to learn dance, creative writing and music...
...That mood of despair is shared by Tyre's local government, which has found itself confronting a catastrophe that dwarfs its meager capabilities. A crowd of anxious people throng the reception area of the municipality's offices, begging for food handouts and bottled water. "There's nothing for them. We have no supplies," says Hassan Al-Husseini, the mayor, bitterly...
...front runner, former Mexico City Mayor Andrés Manuel López Obrador, of the leftist Democratic Revolution Party, has turned his rallies into carnival-style events, with supporters tossing marigold garlands around his neck and hoisting cages with squawking chachalaca birds that wear his opponents' names. To a raucous throng last week in Puebla, south of Mexico City, López pledged to rid the government of the "arrogant, mediocre, lying thieves who cripple this country!" That got the crowd worked up even more...