Word: crowded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crowd knew...
...crowd was loud," Crimson Captain Peter Chiarelli said. "And they were spitting...
...long in coming. Thursday evening, some 3,000 students gathered in front of the home of Peking University President Ding Shisun, demanding that he intercede on behalf of the detainees, who they claimed were 24 in number. Speaking through a megaphone, Ding promised to seek their release. But the crowd was in no mood to disperse, despite subzero temperatures and a fresh two-inch snowfall. Instead, it picked up additional demonstrators in a march through the campus and from nearby People's University, and set out across White Stone Bridge toward Tiananmen. At its height the throng numbered around...
...police showed extraordinary restraint in controlling the crowds. Authorities kept track of the marchers' progress from a dozen police vehicles equipped with two-way radios, but made no effort to block the marchers except at the State Guesthouse in western Peking, where public gatherings are strictly forbidden. The ranks began to thin when Peking University Vice President Sha Jiansun announced over a police loudspeaker that all student detainees had been released. By the time those who persisted had completed the ten-mile trip to Tiananmen Square at 3:30 a.m., the size of the crowd had dwindled to only...
Harvard's victory, before a crowd of 250 people, was especially sweet because Crimson Coach John Dooley had named the Big Green as the Crimson's main contender for the Ivy title this year...