Word: throngs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...candidates answer questions, applause, hisses and cheers rise from the throng of some 90 student representatives. The candidates try to satisfy potential voters with their responses to a question about what action the assembly members should take if the University ignores them...
...last week) by spoiling Colgate's homecoming weekend, 21-12. The Red Raider offense sorely missed the explosive punch of Henry White, Bob Relph, and the rest of last year's graduated eastern powerhouse squad, as Cornell's three one-yard touchdown jaunts were enough to send the Hamilton throng of 8500 disappointedly back into seclusion...
...extolling the Pontiff's life. Then 95 red-robed Cardinals concelebrated the Mass. After the anthem In Paradisium Conducant Te Angeli (May the Angels Lead You to Paradise), the coffin was taken to the crypt beneath St. Peter's and placed in a newly prepared tomb. Above the applauding throng and the massed ranks of police, the sky had darkened into a gentle twilight...
...throng of Western newsmen and Soviet reporters (who have yet to report the big event in Moscow's Russian-language papers) looked on as the newlyweds departed. The wedding itself was attended by only eleven guests, none of whom were from the bride's family. Like other members of the tight-knit international shipping community, they are uncertain what impact the marriage will have on the $500 million Onassis fleet, in which Christina has a 48% interest. (The rest is held by the Monte Carlo-based Alexander Onassis Foundation, which is run by a troika...
Since nothing in Venice goes down as well as a scandal, especially a sexual scandal, the corral soon drew a throng of artists, reporters, dealers, critics, museum folk and art groupies. As the massed cameras clicked and whirred, and the crowd of connoisseurs looked breathlessly on, the bull glared at his mechanical bride and abruptly scrambled up on her. Then, with the weary expression of Porn Star Harry Reems working off his debts, Pinco ejaculated on the ground. So ended Paradiso's work of art, which was, in its way, emblematic of the Biennale: a captive beast (Natura) struggling...