Word: thronged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nixon made their entrance. Before the cheering, celebrating throng the President was solemn. Said he: "It is a very heart-warming experience to know that your labors, your efforts of four years have achieved that level where they are approved by the United States of America in a vote. Such a vote as that cannot be merely for an individual. It is for principles and ideals for which that individual and his associates have stood and have tried to exemplify." A Deeper Base. From the start of the campaign, there had never been any real doubt that the people...
...upperclassman entertaining his date in his room tonight is taking advantage of the next-to-last Saturday night permission before chilly December. Soon the House Dances will be upon him, and he must join the throng...
Landing in Los Angeles, Stevenson and Kefauver faced a mob scene sufficient to warm any politician's heart. As they prepared to meet the crowd, someone remarked that it was a greater throng than the one that recently met Rock-'n'-Roll Star Elvis Presley. "Who," asked Stevenson, "is Elvis Presley?" As usual, Estes Kefauver was right on hand to help fill Stevenson's fund of commoner knowledge. Elvis the Pelvis, he said, was "a fine boy" from Tennessee...
...stood in the rear waving, first with his left hand, then right, then both, to the heavy crowds who lined the streets and packed Union Square in front of the downtown St. Francis Hotel. His Secret Service escort moved narrow-eyed and tense through the surging, shouting lobby throng, but the President was clearly delighted as he and Mamie Eisenhower made their way to the elevator for the ride to their two-bedroom suite on the sixth floor. There President Eisenhower received brief courtesy calls from California Republican leaders, chatted with his family, retired early...
...wear. By next afternoon Eisenhower was feeling better. It was then that he got his biggest thrill. Driving to the El Panama hotel, where he was to participate in the signing of the Declaration of Panama, he was beset by the most wildly cheering throng he had ever experienced, finally arrived at his destination-a short three miles away-in 32 minutes. Before leaving for Panama last week, the President: ¶ Conferred with Treasury's George Humphrey, Commerce's Sinclair Weeks, Labor's James Mitchell, Economist Arthur Burns and Federal Mediator Joseph Finnegan on the steel strike...