Word: throngs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...visas outside the offices of the U.S. Interest Section, which represents the U.S. on the island in the absence of diplomatic relations between the two countries. Suddenly several buses pulled up, and scores of their country men jumped out. Swinging tire irons, pipes and chains, they into the throng as police stood by and watched. After 20 minutes, more police arrived and the fighting stopped, but not before a dozen were injured and some 400 of the visa seekers had fled into the U.S. offices...
...questions were asked in a soft voice by a slight, graying American woman as she faced a throng of reporters in Tehran, about 7,000 miles from her home in Oak Creek, Wis., a suburb of Milwaukee. Only hours ahead of a ban on travel to Iran imposed on Americans by the President, Barbara Timm, 41, had flown to Tehran on a unique maternal odyssey. She wanted to visit her son, Marine Sergeant Kevin Hermening, who, at 20, is the youngest of the 53 hostages. At her side was her second husband, Kenneth Timm, 42, a construction machinery salesman...
...nearly three weeks, the slight, intense figure in the rumpled trench coat campaigned across Wisconsin at dairy farms and bowling alleys, in workingmen's bars and suburban living rooms. "My campaign," Jerry Brown expounded to a throng of supporters in Madison's Cardinal Bar, "is on the edge, the existential edge...
Their popular image in the West is that of a throng of terrorists and refugees. Some of them indeed are that: there are perhaps 47,000 commandos under arms, and more than 650,000 people living in squalid, overcrowded camps scattered across the Middle East. But this community also includes artists and poets, builders and bureaucrats, doctors and teachers. Their industry and zeal for learning (20 out of every 1,000 are in a college or university somewhere) have earned them the sobriquet "the Jews of the Arab world...
...order to maim rather than kill. In the northwest part of the city, a group of protesters wielding sticks and captured guns marched on the Kharga military barracks and urged the Afghan unit there to disband. According to witnesses, at least 200 Afghan army personnel defected and joined the throng...