Word: throng
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...Lord's work." The Dartmouth campus erupted with indignation. Though editor in chief Kevin Pritchett claimed that some unidentified culprit had sneaked the quote into print, the Review's president and two other staff members quit. Outraged students supported by faculty members organized a mass protest that brought a throng to the campus green...
...Assembly President Laurent Fabius. But the French public seemed more than a little blase: only about 30 people showed up last week for a political colloquium on the theme of progress. Toward the end of the second day, however, the room was unaccountably filled with spectators, and the applauding throng seemed to have saved the ruling Socialists from a public relations disaster. But relief turned to embarrassment when it was learned that more than 100 members of the crowd had been paid $63 each to attend the event for three hours...
...Quebec. The crowd in Montreal was venting some of the frustration that had built up during years of wearying constitutional dispute about the status of the Gallic province of 6.5 million people in the midst of a predominantly English- speaking country of 26.5 million. The fervor of the throng was real, but when the party was over, Quebec's future course was no clearer...
...Malcolm X to the status of secular saints. Mandela is unique among heroes because he is a living embodiment of black liberation. Like Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer enjoying their own eulogies from a hiding place in the church, he can bathe in the adulation of a worldwide throng yearning to, if not touch the hem of his garment, at least catch a glimpse of him whirring by in a motorcade...
Kansas State's Janet Haskins broke out from the throng that caught Jones at the 8800-meter mark and eventually finished 30 meters ahead of the pack in a time of 33:49.72. Lisa Stone of Baylor took second in 33:51.50, Christi Konstantin of Georgetown nabbed third in 33:55.57, and Jones crossed the line...