Word: throng
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...gives grandeur to tragedy and rivets eyes that would otherwise wander. Maybe it's the Russian soul, that famously long-suffering bit of global ether that gave Dostoevsky and Tolstoy their golden touches. Maybe it's the sweeping snowscapes, or the songs, and that there's just no throng like a Russian throng, fur hats and all. Or maybe it's all those nukes. Whatever it is, it pulls Reds back from the brink and into the pantheon of really long, turgid movies worth watching...
...Fair Harvard, the daughters in jubilee throng." The two versions are sung simultaneously. The divergence of three syllables takes no more than two seconds, beat and meter match perfectly, and the song goes on. The two versions unite like a marriage, not jarring the ears like the dozens of the suggestions...
...Elaine Chestney '98 said after waiting in a "rowdy throng" to report her height and weight in front of her classmates, she then had to get her skull circumference measured...
Wearing a baggy blue suit and white shirt, Gates broke through the throng of journalists and staff members to shake some manicured hands. After he'd provided virtually every Senator in the room with a frameable photo-op, he pushed his way to one end of the green felt-covered witness table and coolly greeted Sun Microsystems' Scott McNealy, chief of the Gates bashers. The committee staff--hoping for as many fireworks as possible--placed McNealy directly to Gates' left, next to Microsoft's other archrival, the aggrieved Jim Barksdale of Netscape Communications Corp...
Instead--and with a smile--she gives him directions. I decide to follow the young man toward the demonstrations, and soon I'm standing just outside the Graduate School of Design, in a throng of China supporters and protesters many hundreds strong. By my rough estimate (and much to my surprise) there are easily as many Jiang supporters as there are critics, with an extremely strong Asian presence in both camps. The sides trade Chinese songs and English slogans ("One China. No Separation. We Love China" is countered with "Jiang Zemin. Bullshit. Jiang Zemin. Bullshit") and there are plenty...