Word: thronging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dark water; and before one throng can land...
...week, they arrested a man after finding bomb-making materials in a nearby apartment.) Today, police arrested a man found carrying a pistol along the papal route, deployed bomb-sniffing dogs around the Papal Nunciature and even examined boxes of chocolates carried by nuns. The pontiff, undeterred, told the throng the church in the Philippines has "a special vocation" to spread Christianity among the ancient cultures of Asia...
...throng of frustrated Harvard students fought tooth and nail for a Yale College flag. A Yale junior leaned over the side of a Soldier field wall, unzipped his fly and sent a streaming, triumphant message to the cement 20 feet below. A tailgating Harvard graduate poured himself a half-full glass of champagne, sarcastically toasted seven more losing seasons and then downed the load in one gulp...
About a dozen Democrats met in Harvard Yard and took the T to join a teeming throng of demonstrators, which included fans of both candidates mixed together...
...sparked a rampage by furious Aristide supporters. After U.S. soldiers prevented the mob from venting its wrath on several men suspected of throwing the bomb, the crowd turned on the warehouse itself. And in a sample of what rich Haitians have predicted could engulf the entire country, the throng stripped the building bare. They took everything: steel drums, bags of cement, iron bars, even coils of wire -- but this time no Americans intervened...