Word: throngs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Moroccan irregulars, Mohammed V launched on a tour of Morocco's southern border. Heretofore, Mohammed has kept himself carefully aloof from Moroccan extremists' attempts to snatch the potentially oil-rich Sahara away from France and Spain. At the oasis of M'mahid before a cheering throng of desert riders, he laid formal claim to the western Sahara-a claim based on the fact that 900 years ago his ancestors of the Almoravide Dynasty ruled all northwest Africa...
Well-dressed but rudely shoving crowds bellied up to endless rows of benches to adore nearly 100 varieties of dog. The air bristled with ammoniac fumes. To prepare the quadruped idols for the worshiping throng, handlers laved them in exotic ceremonies. They rubbed chalk into the hides of sheep dogs and collies to stiffen and brighten the white areas. Some anointed the beasts with such hair beautifiers as Helene Curtis Spray Net and Adorn. One high priestess to an Airedale basted her dog with beer and brilliantine to stiffen and shine its coat. Terrier handlers carefully plucked hair from their...
Around midnight, the clubs run out of liquor and every door on Prospect Street spews forth a jubilant stream of staggering sophomores, juniors, and seniors. Leaning on each other, singing, shouting, a few pausing at the gutter to retch quietly for a moment then loudly rejoining the buoyant inebriated throng, they totter off toward the campus or a cafe where they can calm down with a cup of coffee. The fraternal transport is now at its beatific height. Arm in arm they reel indifferent to traffic or the piercing cold; one lifts his hands to the frigid heavens and races...
...cheering throng of Turkish Cypriots streamed through Nicosia's ancient walled Turkish quarter one morning last week. They were celebrating a report from Ankara, where Britain's Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd was conferring with Turkey's Premier Menderes and Cyprus Governor Sir Hugh Foot, that Britain had accepted partition of Cyprus (between Greeks and Turks) as a solution for the island's troubles. Minutes later, the rumor was proved false. The peaceful procession was abruptly transformed into an angry, howling mob. The "Black Turks" -Cyprus' special police trained to brutal efficiency in breaking up riots...
...spacious Celebration Hall of Cairo University last week 500 delegates from more than 40 countries rallied under a huge banner showing two hands, one light and one dark, clasped around a torch that lit up the outlines of Asia and Africa. A milling throng of students waved a banner that read DOWN WITH THE EISENHOWER DOCTRINE; from the gallery, schoolgirls shouted: "No bases-no pacts -no H-bomb...