Word: throng
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...hands of other random strangers who may or may not speak our language or know where they're going. We walk down sidewalks insanely dense with people and data, sidestepping peddlers, beggars, dog turds and gaping steel holes that descend into basement caverns. We live in a teeming throng, exposed. And we like it that way. Because life in the open has two sides: we make ourselves vulnerable to ugliness and annoyance and danger because that's the price of remaining vulnerable to serendipity and beauty and even the odd epiphany...
...presence, sent the women at a nearby table into paroxysms of girlish twittering. Soon, a crowd of girls gathered outside the restaurant window. By the end of the meal there were dozens of women jostling for position outside - his manager had to help him push his way through the throng. This kind of thing sometimes follows Jang when he leaves South Korea. In Vietnam last year, thousands of women packed Ho Chi Minh City's stadium for his concert, crying hysterically and screaming "I love you." It seems all Jang would need to do to find a girlfriend is just...
...crowd estimated by the police to be 100,000 strong marched through the city. Its banners spoke for the poor, for workers' rights, for all the issues of those who oppose the way in which the world has become knitted together by globalization. But there were gaps in the throng. A little late in the day (for it has been clear since Prague that peaceful groups were being used as cover by a violent fringe) some well-known organizations, like the environmental group Friends of the Earth, had been sufficiently worried by the prospect of violence to stay away from...
...tiny fraction of that throng gathered last Thursday night outside the Belgrade prison where Milosevic had been held since April, chanting "Slobo, Slobo, we will never abandon you." Milosevic's wife Mira and his daughter-in-law Milica Gajic were there, too, waiting silently in a green...
...while his Thai opponent, fighting the referee's restraint, presses to finish him off. Chinaka's eyes are frosted and bloody from three fresh cuts on his right brow. Giving up, he feels his way to the ropes and, as he is pulled into the cursing throng, his eyelids flicker with the approaching blackout...