Word: throngs
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...exact same point: America is exceptional, but it’s not perfect.Whether Palin has changed her mind about the perfection or imperfection of the country she (sort of) lives in, or whether her debate-night modesty was merely a concession to centrists to be abandoned before a friendly throng, cases like this make you wonder about the prospective vice president’s intellectual honesty. To be fair, those throngs have continued to eat her red meat, gladly; more recently, when Palin quoted Obama out of context questioning the activities of American troops in Afghanistan, a few piped...
...himself as a new, multiracial, principled politician who can change not just the policies of Washington, but the fundamentals of how politics works around the world. "People of Berlin - people of the world - this is our moment. This is our time," Obama announced last week, before an impressive European throng...
...integration should go. At the same time, there is a sense of bafflement that others do not share the same sense of idealism that many in Brussels insist motivates their work. News of the Irish no hit Brussels "like a bomb," says French stagiaire Renaud Savignat, standing amid the throng of young professionals drinking beers outside the cafés lining the Place du Luxembourg...
...salarymen are those that I encounter most frequently during my morning commute. They tend to maintain stern expressions yet many have small charms on their cell phones, and read thick volumes of manga. Many a morning I find myself in the throng of school children, who travel en masse to school in their uniforms reminiscent of sailor suits. They are the most social of those riding the train as they excitedly discuss topics beyond my realm of comprehension...
...abandon the city to the Soviets, demonstrated most dramatically during the Berlin airlift of 1948, endeared a generation of Berliners to the U.S. When Kennedy arrived in Berlin in 1962, the city was gripped by something approaching mass hysteria; Kennedy later confided that had he called on the throng - an estimated 750,000 witnessed his "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech at Schoenberg City Hall - to tear down the Wall, they would have done...