Word: throng
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...What was really impressive was how curious and friendly virtually everyone was. We were immediately identified wherever we went, and people would just throng around us,” said Ramos, originally Myra M. Bergman...
...worst this time, Labour ministers announced plans on May 9 to extend debt-advice services and free legal representation to those at risk of losing their homes. Yet just days later, as Housing Minister Caroline Flint entered Brown's Downing Street home, her briefing notes - inadvertently visible to a throng of press photographers - revealed her own department's fears that "we can't know how bad it will get." Brown knows a painful downturn could help to turf him out of Downing Street. Like many other Britons, he'd like a market that at least lets him hang...
...jubilee throng”) indicates that students, admittedly male students, are “thronging” to the “jubilee” of Harvard graduation. The easiest reading of the new verse presents an obvious grammatical problem: “We join in thy jubilee throng,” is essentially saying “we come together at your jubilee.” This complete statement then leaves a lonely verb, “throng,” at the end of the verse: “We join in thy jubilee. [complete sentence, then?...
...Gilman’s original intention was to describe the grandiose nature of Commencement day, a jubilee towards which many a nervous student and proud parent throng. Any surveyor of the Yard on Commencement day would clearly realize that “throng” is a much more appropriate verb to describe the great masses crowding in for the historic ceremony. “Join” is a word more appropriate for the purchase of an online dating membership. When I graduate, I don’t want to merely “join” my classmates...
...there is little we can do. But when we seniors graduate this June, I hope you will “join” me in bellowing out these words that are both gender-sensitive and true to the original meaning: “We all to thy jubilee throng...