Word: thronging
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...automatic weapons struggle to hold back the crowd, a salesclerk begins parceling out portions of a coveted commodity: frozen 1-lb. chunks of chicken gizzards, heads and feet. In minutes the meager supply is exhausted, and fistfights erupt among disappointed customers. Moments later the van drives off, and the throng disperses...
...through the long Piranesian gloom of the rope walk at the Arsenal, you can go back to the museums and immerse yourself in the Venetian past, an experience that tends to put some of the achievements of late or postmodernism in perspective. Moreover, it takes you away from the throng of dealers and neocollectors who descend on the Biennale like salesmen at a security-devices convention in Akron and would not lightly squander their quality time on something as old hat as a Veronese or a Tintoretto ceiling...
...throng of angry mourners surged through the streets of Tehran, balancing the flag-draped coffins of Iran's latest martyrs above their heads. "Death to America!" "Death to Reagan!" "Revenge, revenge!" they shouted, as the cameras of foreign journalists invited for the occasion focused on close- packed faces distorted by fury and grief...
Some 10,000 people took advantage of sunny weather last week to attend the town of Lisburn's annual "fun run." The final race, a 13-mile half marathon, had just ended, and the assembled throng was beginning to disperse. Suddenly the peaceful scene was shattered by an explosion that turned a blue van slowing for a traffic light into a fireball. All six passengers, British soldiers who had participated in the races, were killed. The only wonder was that there were no fatalities among onlookers, though eight of them were injured...
...Booth the soldier, while the throng knelt down...