Word: throngs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tourists at the luxurious Holiday Pyramids Hotel, which lies in the shadows of the Great Pyramids at Giza, were relaxing after a day of sightseeing. Without warning, a throng of armed men dressed in black uniforms burst through the front door. As staff and guests scrambled for cover, the intruders ran through the lobby, smashing windows and shooting at hotel security guards who tried to turn them away. Before the men left, they started a fire that burned for 36 hours, doing millions of dollars of damage...
...throng packed a soccer stadium in Alexandra, a squalid Black township wedged among the richest white suburbs of Johannesburg. In the crowd were Black activist Winnie Manela and diplomats from seven Western nations, including the United States...
...security forces. The police commander agreed to remove patrols from the township streets and to permit Bishop Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace prizewinner, to speak in the stadium. "I know we all want freedom," Tutu told the crowd, "but we must get it in a disciplined manner." The throng returned to their homes peacefully. Later in the week, however, Tutu was angrily booed when he announced that a meeting with government officials had produced no concessions...
...each of the previous three home games, Big Red faithful had slipped their entries in the ballot box and now, as the car sat there in the middle of Ithaca's Barton Hall and the sponsors stood in a semicircle behind the master of ceremonies, the 5000-strong throng in the stands went crazy...
...banners, reflecting Aquino's campaign color, overflowed the sprawling harbor-front park. Yellow ticker tape and confetti rained down from office buildings surrounding the capacious square. < In contrast to earlier Aquino rallies, which had had a decidedly homespun air, an array of professional singing and television stars held the throng's attention for three hours before the opposition candidates arrived. When Aquino and Laurel finally appeared, a cacophony of auto horns erupted, fireworks lighted the evening sky, and the crowd launched into a deafening welcome chant of "Cory! Cory! Cory...