Word: thronged
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Great was the joy of the throng when one of their own, George Messier, a practicing weightlifter, muscled past 17 other contestants to cop the crown and the handsome gold-plated statuette that went with...
...Italian host apologized as we threaded our way through the throng. "I'm sorry it was such a quiet game," he said...
...wrinkled mother screamed denials of her son's death. "They'll never catch him," she cried, "never!" Next morning, when the carabinieri thrust her through the throng outside the morgue gates to view his body, Maria Giuliano at last broke down. "My blood," she croaked hoarsely, "my own blood." Then, turning fiercely towards a bank of news photographers, she spat out, "It's you who've brought my son to hell...
...basilica into St. Peter's Square because of the great crowds-estimated by the Vatican radio at 500,000. Pope Pius XII, robed in scarlet in honor of Maria's martyrdom and wearing the triregnum, his three-tiered crown, spoke from a portable throne to a throng that stretched before him for a quarter of a mile. Calling upon the world to follow the example of "the little sweet Martyr of Purity," he asked the young people in the crowd whether they would resist any attempt against their virtue. "Si!" they shouted in chorus...
...started with an advertising man's dream-a vision of a helpless, pliable throng, ears open and guards down, known in the trade as a "captive audience." Trapped in Manhattan's cavernous Grand Central Terminal, where each day 500,000 persons swarm to & fro, was the biggest audience in captivity. The temptation was irresistible. Grand Central expanded its public address system into a small broadcasting studio, laid in a supply of canned music, syrupy-voiced announcers and loudspeakers (82 of them), and went into business. Advertisers eagerly paid $1,800 a week for the privilege of spraying music...