Word: thronging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite the imposing rain clouds building throughout much of yesterday afternoon, Harvard Square hosted the last leg of what organizers called a successful Atlantic Cup Classic bicycle race, with over 150 participants and a throng of enthusiastic spectators...
...allowed to admit it: awards shows are fun to watch. The glittering celebrities, the throng of screaming devotees and the anticipation and anxiety leading up to the completion of the phrase "And the winner is..." are too hard to resist...
...spilling out of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, a crowd happy at the end of the Easter Vigil and the resurrection of their Lord, at first obscured the crowd of joyful singers. As they sang and danced in celebration, they offered hands and made spaces for the growing throng of onlookers. My friends and I were soon drawn into the circle. Those baptized and received into the Church by Pope John Paul II himself that night, were of every race and ethnicity, yet carried flags not of nations but of love and faith...
...best way to escape the hordes is to borrow a page from Muir and take a hike. There are a multitude of trails to choose from, but Yosemite Falls, one of Muir's favorite features, is a good destination. "When the afternoon sunshine is streaming through the throng of comets, ever wasting, ever renewed," Muir wrote of the falls, "the marvelous fineness, firmness and variety of their forms are beautifully revealed...
...social throng of the Gold Coast would go from spot to spot in Boston--to the best and most expensive locales to meet other young persons of quality. When in the luxurious atmosphere of their rooms, boys parted with exorbitant amounts of money to continue their high stakes reveling far into the night. Many Golden Youth kept scrapbooks of their social lives during the turn of the century--records of parties and club dinners and inordinate activities. They saved: scrolled Hasty Pudding invitations, silk-tasseled dance cards for exclusive parties, gold engraved menus for Porcellian dinners boasting aged port...