Word: throngs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When William attempted to see behind the media throng, Charles instructed, "You are meant to stay on this side...
...International Summer Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago is the gaudy showcase of American high tech. By day, 100,000 industry officials throng the aisles of vast McCormick Place, surrounded by towering displays at 1,381 booths. At night, they dip shrimp into cocktail sauce at lavish corporate receptions and gossip about the competition. A year ago at the show, people were predicting that it was just a matter of time before there would be a computer in every house. But last week much of the talk was about the slow growth in home computers...
...White House tour, the pop idol was intrigued by a portrait of Andrew Jackson, whose military jacket was vaguely similar to his own. Later Jackson agreed to meet a few presidential staffers and their children, but fled to the men's room when he saw a waiting throng of 75 star-struck adults. The grownups were politely asked to beat it, and Jackson emerged to meet his young fans-a few at a time...
...Maryland (43% to Jackson's 27% and Hart's 25%). But Hart came back from the brink to upset Mondale twice, in the key Midwestern states of Ohio (42% to 40%) and Indiana (42% to 41%). "Welcome to the fourth quarter," Hart told a jubilant throng of his supporters at Washington's National Press Club. "The message is clear. The Democrats and the people of this country are not prepared to have this contest and debate end at this time...
...crowd and into a campaign headquarters ("outreach center," in his terminology), and campaign workers arranged the scene for his speech. An aide pointed to the spot where the candidate would stand and shouted, "Rainbow, rainbow!" It was a signal to another assistant to plunge into the predominantly black throng and look for whites who could be brought up front to stand near Jackson, so that photographs would show the preacher as leader of a multiracial rainbow coalition...