Word: throngs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bowl stadium has attracted huge crowds for New Year's Day gridiron clashes between the likes of Ohio State and Southern Cal. But in the eyes of most of the world, real football came to the Rose Bowl last week, when Olympic soccer teams took the field. A throng of more than 100,000, the largest audience ever for a soccer game in the U.S., gathered to watch France defeat Brazil 2-0 in the final match last Saturday. The confrontation was the climax of a cross-country tournament that drew cheering crowds in Cambridge, Mass., Annapolis...
...Texas that she seemed to shine the brightest. In Queens, a crowd of 3,000 proved listless despite the pantheon of New York Democrats on hand. In Cleveland, where the candidates addressed the National Urban League conference, the mostly black audience offered attentive applause. But in Jackson, a throng of 4,000 waited in a drizzly rain for the pair and, when Mondale and Ferraro appeared on the steps of the antebellum Governor's mansion, cries of "Gerry! Gerry!" filled the air. "Do I have to worry about the South?" she asked. The answer roared back...
...another woman might prove herself Lana Turner's equal in some way on the same boulevard. But these souls in the Coliseum had more action in their dreams: they had beaten the wind in the arena of the swift. Having achieved that, they would step back into the throng and go about their jobs...
...Havana were a varied assortment: 26 Cubans jailed for political offenses against the Castro regime, and 22 U.S. citizens, all of whom had been charged by the Cubans with drug trafficking or drug possession. But after they stepped from their plane at Dulles International Airport near Washington, a cheering throng of friends and relatives greeted them with tears of joy that transcended the politics of Jackson's ploy. Said William Snyder, a paper-mill foreman in Calhoun, Tenn., and father of freed Prisoner Alan Snyder, 24: "The Reagan Administration may be more or less disappointed, but I am tickled...
...tilemaker who was a popular figure in the Cuban labor movement. Otero was arrested in 1964 while plotting a national uprising under the banner of the Cuban National Liberation Army. He kissed miniature Cuban and American flags on his arrival in Miami and looked a bit bewildered as a throng of 250 people cheered him. Said he: "After 20 years, I didn't recognize some of my family. I was surprised to see the grandchildren are bigger than...