Word: throngs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Over-subscription: the very word strikes terror into the hearts of gutekers and schmoozers from NoHo to the River, Lotteries and interviews, election by class year, exclusion of non-concentrators--all seem unfair to those not making the cut. And they're right. It's true that if thousands throng to "Spots and Dots," the teaching staff can hardly be expected to multiply by a factor of 10 in two weeks' time. Director of the Core Curriculum Edward T. Wilcox said recently that the University "will continue to try, but we have been unable to find enough qualified...
...Island Rail Road's 5:47 to Syosset, N.Y. At exactly 5:41 p.m. the last seat is taken. At 5:46 the standing room in the aisles is filled. By 5:49, when the train begins its slow, stately crawl from Pennsylvania Station, only two minutes late, the throng in the vestibule has achieved a degree of intimacy known in other places as close dancing. An oldtimer, folded atop his briefcase into a posture he is willing to describe as sitting, observes that it is one of those rare winter evenings when the heat, instead of the air conditioning...
...time to stop putting money into highways and start putting it into mass transit." Dukakis told the throng of onlookers...
Reminders of German mistreatment of the Poles are not hard to find in a country which still bears the scars of World War II. The reconstucted old city in Warsaw has a Disney World atmosphere as hundreds of tourists throng the central squares. Most of the surrounding building facades look freshly painted and solid. They stand in contrast to the two or three decaying cracked portals which survived the war as more than rubble...
...they had rallied under the hot sun, a vast throng swelling to embrace 450,000 people. It had been a peaceful demonstration, but now as darkness fell, a few among the crowd became restless. Gathered in Makati, Metro Manila's high-rise business district, they began setting fire to automobile tires and piles of yellow confetti. With no police or soldiers in sight, predictions by the government of President Ferdinand Marcos that the daylong rally would culminate in violence seemed about to come true...