Word: clapping
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...prepared to become an unwitting prop. If you're not careful, you can find yourself sitting on a hay bale, holding a handwritten sign, written not in your own hand, which says "Husbands for Hillary!" Sure, you can politely decline to hold a sign, wear a campaign sticker, clap, cheer or stomp. But there's nothing you can do about your face showing up weeks later in a campaign brochure or video, as part of a crowd of smiling, well-fed Iowans providing a handy backdrop for the candidate...
...mathematics professor Benedict H. Gross ’71, the former dean of the College. The top four contestants were asked “Miss America”-style questions, then were each given 15 seconds to get the crowd to make as much noise as possible. A slow clap and “Harvard” chant helped Moira E. Forberg ’11, chair of the First-Year Social Committee, emerge victorious. An appearance by the football team temporarily interrupted the competition. Head football coach Tim Murphy called his team “classy, tough, and resilient...
...surged forward again. Minutes later, a tear-gas canister arced through the air toward the pagoda's eastern entrance. The monks retreated, many still armed with clubs of scavenged wood, one brandishing a riot shield he had snatched from the police. Suddenly, there was an enormous explosion: a clap of thunder. The demonstrators applauded this sign of cosmic solidarity. One monk raised his hands to the heavens, shouting "The rain is coming! The soldiers will be struck by lightning!" Nearby, a woman responded, "Lightning is not enough. They deserve more." A cheer went up with each subsequent clap of thunder...
Suddenly there was what sounded like an enormous explosion: a clap of thunder. Monks and people cheer and applaud. A sign of cosmic solidarity...
...monk raised his hands to the heavens and shouted, "The rain is coming! The soldiers will be struck by lightning!" But, a woman retorted, "Lightning is not enough. They deserve more." A cheer goes up with each subsequent clap of thunder...