Word: crowded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harry Truman's; Douglas himself had fought for Eisenhower instead of Truman before Philadelphia, convinced at the time that the President was "inept." But in the spring of 1948, Douglas hitched a loudspeaker to a jeep station wagon and started out across the state. Talking wherever a crowd would gather, beginning at factory gates at 7 a.m., stopping at every gas station and crossroads café, winding up again at another factory for the midnight shift, he covered 40,000 miles, made more than 1,100 speeches in six months...
Bunkum & Nonsense. Almost as if to prove it, thousands of disciples-mostly women-used to gather to listen to his lectures on "truth and love." Reverent old women and awe-struck businessmen would crowd around him to touch his hand or coat. Two years ago, close to 50 and still handsome, Krishnamurti returned to India and relative obscurity, still lecturing with the help of a few wealthy followers. Last week he was in the news again, involved in one of India's rare cases of marital dissolution...
...crowd pressed close around the first tee at Los Angeles' Riviera Country Club. A bare-kneed emcee in kilts and tarn strode forward. "Ladies and gentlemen," he announced, "this is the greatest event in the history of the Los Angeles Open, but I have been requested by Mr. Ben Hogan to introduce him and say nothing else. On the tee-Ben Hogan...
...crowd dispersed quickly, leaving behind only a few score natives stretched out from heat prostration and a few hundred others happily and symbolically splashing their feet in a lily pool of the palace grounds. Until independence, the lily pool had always been emphatically on the other side of the fence for Indonesians...
...There were no automobiles then and you could buy a Chateaubriand for 30 centimes. I remember Leo and Gertrude Stein, Picasso, Matisse, Alfy Maurer, Weber, Pascin, and John Marin, too. I used to think Marin was an Italian model: he never said a word, never fitted in with our crowd at the Cafe de Dome...