Word: thronged
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Little would change over the last 500 meters, once the crews became visible to the throng of screaming spectators. Even with 60 meters remaining—approximately seven strokes left—the Sprints title sat somewhere between the inches separating Harvard and Yale...
...every corporation's night-mare: a throng of rowdy activists gathers outside company buildings to protest alleged environmental and human-rights abuses. That was the scene in New York City and Chicago last month as dozens of people in white haz-mat suits converged on the offices of JPMorgan Chase to decry what they claimed was the bank's underwriting of illegal logging in Indonesia, and human-rights abuses tied to a Chase-funded mining operation in Peru. Oil companies and industrial giants may be accustomed to such treatment, but not JPMorgan Chase, the second largest bank...
...Usually when I see a German guy on a balcony with an adoring throng underneath him, it tends to make me a little nervous." --DENNIS MILLER...
Vendors selling popcorn and soft drinks moved through the crowd of journalists and diplomats gathered in the tiny border town of Busia, Kenya, about 235 miles northwest of Nairobi. The throng was there to greet the first convoy of cars and buses carrying nearly 300 Americans, Europeans and Asians who were evacuated from Uganda last week following the coup on July 27 that ousted President Apollo Milton Obote. In contrast to the friendly welcome, the travelers gave chilling eyewitness accounts of the confusion and fear that shook the Ugandan capital of Kampala after the coup. Bands of drunken soldiers armed...
Similarly, he had reservations about the swarming of poets into U.S. colleges and universities after World War II, even as he joined the throng. Teaching, which he called "the next thing to hereditary wealth," paid his bills, but the maverick artist in him rebelled against "this whole literary-academic, semi-fashionable, established accepting-things-at-their-own-valuation world." Privately, he bit the doddering hands that fed him: "The faculty of the college are very much like the city of Greensboro [N.C.]--though this is doing an injustice to several trees which are cleverer than several of this faculty...