Word: thronging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Friday night in Anaheim-home of Disneyland-Nixon made a speech dramatizing the San Jose incident before a throng of screaming Orange County supporters. The Republican party bought television time that night to broadcast the address-and it was as good a show as any late-night horror film. His eyes rolling around in his skull, his hands chopping the air in shaky spastic motions, the President asked the nation to draw the line against those who condone and excuse violence...
After two speakers addressed the crowd, calling for a "fighting worker-student alliance," demonstration marshals directed the throng back to the Wayne campus...
Despite its proximity to the birthplace of Bolshevism, Turkey has remained a deeply conservative society, dominated by a seemingly change-proof peasantry. Thus it came as something of an eye-opener last month when the country's growing leftist organizations were able to assemble a throng of 70,000 in Istanbul to protest a labor bill that they felt would benefit right-wing workers. The demonstration quickly turned into a bloody riot. Tanks rumbled out and gunfire spluttered. The Golden Horn bridge was closed and ferry service across the Bosporus, linking the European and Asian halves of the city...
...fleeing refugees. In Nnewi, the Cool Precious Restaurant for Good Diet is back in business. The breweries are working again, and cold beer goes swiftly at $1 a bottle. The Ibo commercial instinct is reasserting itself everywhere-from the $20-a-night Bristol Hotel in Lagos, where Ibo businessmen throng to re-establish their contacts, to the smallest villages, where young boys sell cigarettes for a few cents' profit. "They have learned a lot from the war," a Yoruba from Nigeria's Western Region told TIME Correspondent James Wilde last week. "They will never try armed force again...
...production of the Passion Play at Oberammergau, Germany, has long been a byword for Roman Catholic piety−and a major international tourist attraction. Ticket demands for this season's 98 performances exceed the supply by about 1,000,000. The 500,-000 or so visitors who will throng the area are expected to spend more than $10 million−enough to keep Oberammergau going through the next nine lean years when the population shrinks to its normal 5,000, the beards and hair come off, and the town turns again into a sleepy hamlet whose principal industry...