Word: crowd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three-day beat spell drew to a close last night officials of the Metropolitan District Commission warned the huge crowd of students longing by the Charles that a $20 fine awaited anyone with a penchant for a plunge...
Along Nanking Road, Shanghai's main business street, Red soldiers herded captured Nationalists into filling stations. When an angry crowd of civilians turned on a frightened Nationalist soldier, Red troops dispersed them. At one busy corner, a Communist noncom stood guard over a lone Nationalist soldier who squatted self-consciously in a doorway. "What about him?" asked a civilian. "He is very happy now," replied the noncom. The soldier, puffing a cigarette, grinned sheepishly. And under the marquee of the Cathay Theater, a lone Communist private, obviously ill at ease in the big city's hurlyburly, served...
Preceded by a modest automobile escort, it came at last down streets reverberating with banzais. At one place the crowd made a quick spontaneous rush from the curb, almost surrounding the imperial car. Nodding happily to them and waving his shapeless grey hat with the flourish of an old campaigner, Hirohito looked more like a successful and extroverted political leader than the scared sovereign...
...know how to offer sympathy to Nagasaki, which had to suffer the atom bomb. We should work with all our might to make a peaceful Japan which will be the cornerstone of world peace and culture." As the Emperor finished, a man stepped in front of the crowd. "Tenno Heika banzai-Long live His Majesty, the Emperor!" he yelled. "Banzai!" echoed the crowd in a booming roar. "Banzai!" the masses outside took up the cheer. "Banzai!" they cried, shaking their paper flags as the maroon Packard drove past the thin white pillar that notes the center of the atom blast...
Outside the Government's huge $7,500,000 synthetic rubber plant at Baton Rouge one day last week, a crowd of bigwigs gathered. They had come to watch while the Copolymer Corp.,† which operates the plant, switched to 100% production of "cold rubber." It was the first U.S. synthetic plant to make the changeover. Copolymer's President A. L. Freedlander thought his guests were witnessing a revolution...