Word: throngs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...patron's eldest son, State's Attorney Richard M. Daley. After Washington's upset win last week, however, it appeared the twice-elected Congressman and his staff might not only enter city hall but own it. "You want Harold?" he cracked to a chanting throng of jubilant well-wishers in his South Side hotel in the wee hours following election day. "You've really...
...master of ceremonies announces two more goodies for the now utterly indifferent throng--one pound of David's Cookies and two more Sack Theater passes...
...beautiful athlete. "Nobody should be able to change your name. That's almost like changing your life." Had his been changed so much by the World Series? "I'm still feeling like a ballplayer and a human being, but all this," he said, motioning toward the throng by his locker, "day in and day out, it could kill you." And so, for now, he was pleased it was over. -By Tom Callahan
Classes officially ended at 12.30 yesterday afternoon in Hanover. Seven hours later, virtually everybody on campus turned out for a parade. At 8:30 p.m., the spirited throng gathered around a monstrous bonfire that the freshman class spent the week constructing...
...advanced into the heavily populated camp of Sabra, bordering Shatila on the north. Using bullhorns, they announced to terrified residents that they were Israelis, and demanded that the Palestinians assemble in the street. Some heeded the call, while others were forced from their homes at gunpoint. The wailing, screaming throng was in a state of collective hysteria. Said one man who survived the ordeal: "We knew what they had been doing in Shatila. We were sure our time had come." The militiamen fired into the air several times in an attempt to restore order; at one point, they also ordered...