Word: throngs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...speaking his name. The crowds suggested that they were. At the Gary airport, 5,000 people waved and shouted at him, their voices reverberating in a huge hangar. "Do you want to go down a new road," asked Nixon, "or go down an old road with new faces?" The throng left no doubt that they preferred the Nixon route...
...chandeliered, Corinthian-columned Senate Caucus Room, where his brother had launched his campaign eight years earlier, he began with the identical words that John F. Kennedy had used: "I am announcing today my candidacy for the presidency of the United States." In front of Bobby was a throng of 450, including Wife Ethel and nine of his ten children; behind him was the big, green-felt-covered table at which he had sat as counsel both for Joe McCarthy's investigations subcommittee and for the Army-McCarthy hearings that finally curbed the Wisconsin Senator's power...
...home front last week. After a 15-month shutdown in the wake of the biggest banking scandal in Lebanese history, Intra Bank reopened its doors for business. The reopening quickly drew a crowd so large that police had to be called to control it. Not surprisingly, the throng consisted mainly of Intra Bank customers anxious to get their savings out rather than to put more Lebanese pounds...
Many of White's speeches and much of his advertising, while calculated to inspire confidence, really don't. At his victory party White told the throng "I have said that the problems which face the city are multiple and complex. The important thing to remember is that we can solve them." There's nothing wrong with that sentiment, of course, but White's reliance on the usual cliches of the politician (a reliance that became more pronounced as the campaign drew to a close) suggested that he lacked the vigorous imagination or heightened perception which distinguishes the man of affairs...
...going to be such a grand party. There were long wooden tables filled with trays of chicken salad sandwiches, and green-frosted victory cake. The five bars had been well stocked for the expected throng of Louise Day Hicks supporters, Dozens of South Boston girls, wearing Kelly green cocktail dresses and Kelly green shoes, were all set for an evening of singing, dancing, and celebrating. Even the artificial stars set in the ceiling over the Boston City Club's tiny dance floor were twinkling...