Word: throngs
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...live public execution? A provocative question, and a nearly superfluous one. What we will see Monday morning will be a live public execution in all but the most literal sense. Some 1,600 journalists will be in Terre Haute, their tape recorders and cameras trained on the expected throng of demonstrators. Jane Clayson will be there; Katie Couric and Charles Gibson will be in Oklahoma City, along with a contingent of reporters set to talk with victims' family members. We will know the instant McVeigh's death is declared. And already, we are seeing and hearing his crime and victims...
...Harvard student body towards athletics. I only did so because I knew that hockey once served to unite the campus and could do so once again. As great as Harvard's 7-4 win over Yale in the playoffs this year was, the truly beautiful sight was the throng of students erupting in sheer elation over the team's feat...
...emblematic of a fresh direction in spying. Private companies and individuals were behind more than half the incidents of industrial espionage in 1999, the most recent year for which statistics are available from the National Counterintelligence Center. Chinese commercial spies--not necessarily working for their government--have joined a throng of other agents targeting American know-how, including those from such ostensible U.S. allies as Japan, Israel, France and South Korea...
...fact, the junior righthander was staring down the barrel of a gun all day long. A projected first round draft pick in this June's amateur draft, Crockett attracted a throng of scouts who stood in the bleachers Friday-radar guns in hand-charting his every pitch...
...purpose in life on a whale-watching boat filled with tourists. Suddenly a huge tail breaks the surface of the water: "It was as if the whole ocean was sliding open. And I saw something there. The world was big, not little. The place was deep." Unlike the jostling throng of gapers around her, Sharon knows what she has seen: "It was a vision...