Word: throngs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...South Station area was converted into a sea of humanity...The crowd screamed: "The general. The general." ...When he emerged from the rotunda into the street the throng set a chant which was to echo all the way to Quincy and back again...
...South Station area was converted into a sea of humanity...The crowd screamed: "The general. The general." ...When he emerged from the rotunda into the street the throng set a chant which was to echo all the way to Quincy and back again...
First Day. Before leaving Munsan in his helicopter for the first day of the truce talks, Vice Admiral Charles Turner Joy, the chief U.N. negotiator, scribbled a word for the throng of newsmen who were being left behind. "We, the delegation from the United Nations command, are leaving for Kaesong fully conscious of the importance of these meetings to the entire world. We are proceeding in good faith to do our part to bring about an honorable armistice . . ." The word "honorable" was heavily underscored. Supreme Commander Ridgway accompanied the admiral to his 'copter. As the machine rose, Joy, responding...
...Murray of the U.S. Marine Corps (both from General Ridgway's joint planning group in Tokyo) and Lee Soo Yong of the South Korean army. There were two pilots and a copilot, a mechanic, two interpreters, an Eighth Army photographer. No allied newsman went to Kaesong. A large throng of U.S. and other U.N. reporters were left behind at Munsan. If the negotiators ran into foul play (which was not seriously expected), allied ground forces around Munsan were ready to smash forward...
...apparently in the belief that they were watching a publicity stunt for the Boston showing of "Fourteen Hours," a motion picture based on a death leap from Manhattan's Gotham Hotel. But as time passed, an excited, nervous tension seemed to build up among the craning throng. "Jump!" they yelled. The voices in the street kept on for one hour and 35 minutes. For one hour and 35 minutes people peering from a window of the room nearest the boy fought against the crowd in a kind of insane debate...