Word: throng
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...power. In more than one case, supporters faced down Arafat's police when they came to make arrests. Neighbors in Bethlehem's Deheisha refugee camp spat at Palestinian Authority troops who tried to pick up Issa Marzook, a Hamas activist and correspondent for Hizballah TV, as a throng ganged around them shouting "Spies! Collaborators! Dogs!" The police retreated without Marzook. Says an Arafat aide: "Hamas is a political power and not a security threat only." Hamas officials voice their defiance. "Arafat is the chairman, but we shall not follow his orders," Abu Marzook told TIME at his office...
...wasn’t. Harvard successfully closed out the game, and at the end of the fourth quarter, I saw a sight that I had never seen before at Harvard: a screaming throng of fans charging the field with their arms raised in victory and their eyes brimming with pride...
sight that I had never seen before at Harvarda screaming throng of fans charging the field with their arms raised in victory and their eyes brimming with pride and exhiliratoin. And instead of skeptically dismissing those fans and predicting that the Crimson’s next game would result in a painful, heartbreaking loss, I found myself grinning in anticipation of the next Game...
Sitting cross-legged over a breakfast of flat bread and kebab in the upper room of a tea shop, Ghulam Rabbani watches his troops in the bazaar below. Amid a throng of locals in the northeastern Afghan town of Baharak, scores of his Northern Alliance soldiers are making last-minute buys before boarding large Russian-built flatbed trucks for the three-day journey through the heart of the Hindu Kush mountains to the plains north of Kabul. "We've served in the north for the past four months," says Rabbani. "But we're being moved south for duty...
Sitting cross-legged over a breakfast of flat bread and kebab in the upper room of a tea shop, Ghulam Rabbani watches his troops in the bazaar below. Amid a throng of locals in the northeastern Afghan town of Baharak, scores of his Northern Alliance soldiers are making last-minute buys before boarding large Russian-built flatbed trucks for the three-day journey through the heart of the Hindu Kush mountains to the plains north of Kabul. "We've served in the north for the past four months," says Rabbani. "But we're being moved south for duty...