Word: thronging
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...City is a liberal stronghold, and one of the hottest spots for the massive anti-war protests that began one year ago last week. Among the millions who demonstrated worldwide, at least a hundred thousand were on the streets of New York, in a throng that stretched 20 blocks long and three wide. So it’s hard to imagine a sedate response when the entire Republican power structure descends on New York to re-affirm their commitment to four more years of this presidency...
...commercial pressures are also a joke for a school like Harvard. There are no TV contracts to play for and no throng of fans to please. There are few, if any, commercial pressures. Send that part of your speech to the University of Florida, and maybe you’ll find an audience...
...only problem for Crimson coach Frank Sullivan is that the unit with that experience will be the vast throng that treks across the river every game in support of junior captain Jason Norman, not the teammates with whom he’ll share the court...
...President as opposed to being shunted off with the hoard of journalists at a ?filing center? in a hotel miles from the action. It was wild watching thousands of Filipinos, most friendly, many emerging from the slums, line the streets as Bush?s motorcade sped sometimes inches from the throng. For long stetches police seemed to be absent and you really felt like some crowd might get plowed down...
...When the US troops finally arrived, more than 30 minutes after the bombing, they came in force: humvees and battle tanks. The crowd jeered. Soldiers pressing inside the embassy were heckled. The tanks rumbled forward, cutting a path through the throng. Soldiers grabbed a crowbar to help the Iraqis prying the scorched metal of one of the cars to retrieve more bodies. The crowd demanded they step back. "Leave them," a man in a bloodied shirt ordered in Arabic, "they are Iraqis." The crowd backed up his command, chanting "God is great ." It took time for the soldiers to drive...