Word: throngs
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MIKE HUCKABEE (R., ARK.) His frequent appearances in PSAs, notably a health-care ad in which he is surrounded by a throng of grateful children, helped inspire G.O.P. state senator Gunner DeLay to sponsor a so-called Huck TV bill to ban such ads. Although it was defeated last year, DeLay has said he will try again...
...expulsion of Israel's ambassador. Queen Rania, herself a Jordanian of Palestinian origin, even led one protest. Anger has turned to violence in some Middle Eastern countries. In the small Persian Gulf nation of Bahrain, where the U.S. maintains a major naval facility, a demonstrator died after a throng of protesters broke through the gates of the U.S. embassy. Another protester was killed in Alexandria, Egypt when police fired rubber bullets to stop a mob from marching on the city's American cultural center. In the most troubling incident to date, an apparent terrorist attack on the Tunisian island...
Weinstein—whose throng of supporters held a sign reading “GO DAN! YOU DA’ MAN” from the upper deck—acknowledged that mishaps like Smith’s were simply natural to his sport...
Witcher then won the third game, 9-2, but Austin, not to be outdone, held Witcher scoreless in the fourth, setting up the climactic final game. In front of a throng of anxious teammates and fans packed sardine-style outside the court, Austin ultimately prevailed, 10-9, in the afternoon’s tightest match...
...Austin film festival of a feature-length movie that depicts Governor Bush merrymaking with journalists aboard his presidential campaign plane in the fall of 2000 may not get a thumbs-up from the Commander in Chief. "These are my people," says Bush, who is seen wading into the boozy throng's cocktail hour as the press corps whips up margaritas in the back rows of the 757. "It takes an animal to know an animal," Bush proclaims, to the whir of a blender. "And I'm not admitting I'm an animal, with 60 days to go in the campaign...