Word: throngs
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...Making his way to the stage through a throng of well-wishers, Howard is engulfed by a roar of adulation. The cheers get louder as, flanked by his beaming family, he promises to lead a country "prepared to stand up for what we believe in." Anne Forsyth suspects there can no longer be any doubters about the man in whom she saw so much early promise. "I have always felt vindicated," she says with a shy smile, "and I think he's got another two or three terms left...
...drop, pitching three of us head first into the churning current and ripping the raft's floor. But we're quickly succumbing to the river's magnificence; its sweet-tasting, clear waters, tinged brown by the tannin leaching off plants, surging and meandering between banks crowded with a jostling throng of trees, tall leatherwoods dropping white blossoms into the foam-covered eddies. Thick forest stretches away in every direction, and there is no sign of a human touch, until the third day, when, exhilarated after a series of simple rapids, we see heavy wires strung high across a narrow gorge...
Brown coach Phil Estes was the first to address the throng of media in attendance. His first task was, unsurprisingly, to tell us about his defense. After discussing his star defensive back Angel Gutierrez, he ran off a slough of names—each of which has the phrase “very physical” next to it in my notes. I can’t be certain if he actually used that description in association with each of the players he mentioned or if I just got bored and went into “very physical?...
Students will throng across the river to see Sen. John F. Kerry, D-Mass., accept his party’s presidential nomination next week, and others will trek to New York next month to see President Bush lead his party at the Republican National Convention—but another presidential candidate will visit Harvard’s campus today: Ralph Nader, the left-leaning candidate without a party...
...choice given how much TV-commercial licensing of his songs has done for his career. I'm not quite sure who gets really excited anymore about Kravitz, who's less a rock star than a celebrity who does a believable rock-star impersonation. Nonetheless, among the business-suited throng packing the Garden, more than one middle-aged white ad man was doing that little baby-boomer head bob and tapping his feet to "Fly Away," to show the young associates gunning for his job that he was still down with the young kids and their musizzle...