Word: crowded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...game before the nine o'clock game is played during rush hour in front of a tiny crowd in the cavernous Garden. By the time the final period starts, the crowd for the real game begins to roll...
...team, who for the last three years had spent the second Monday in February playing in front of yawning audiences in the Tournament's consolation game, were eager--almost desperate--to get to the final. They had yet to play before a full and maddening Boston Garden crowd...
...clubs with nails protruding, began advancing on the bridge. As Jaime Tadeo, a leftist peasant leader, shouted, "Charge Malacanang! Break down the barricades!" and his followers returned a chant of "Revolution! Revolution!," the protesters closed with the security forces. At first the policemen held their ground, but as the crowd pushed forward amid a hail of stones, the police lines began wavering. Frantic police officers shouted, "You can't go through." Tadeo, struggling in the front lines, yelled back, "We're going to Malacanang, and you can't stop...
Then the confrontation turned murderous. No one would say later who had given the order, or whether any was issued, but suddenly the marines put their M-16 rifles to their shoulders and began firing into the crowd. A few demonstrators drew guns of their own and fired back; thousands of others dashed for cover, some dragging dead and wounded comrades behind them. For more than a minute the rattle of automatic-weapons fire echoed across the bridge. When the marines finally stopped firing, four jeeps raced after the protesters, the soldiers aboard loosing tear-gas canisters to disperse what...
...admitted that the soldiers "might have overreacted," but "as far as we are concerned, we exercised maximum tolerance. We had to stop them, or they would have been all over Malacanang." That did not explain why tear gas, water cannons and fire hoses had not been used against the crowd before the security forces began shooting...