The crowd at the twenty-first annual K. of C. Games, final indoor meet of the season, got a thrill a few minutes earlier when a slender, bespectacled woman broke the one-week-old world record in the half-mile run.

In the semi-final, Sri Lanka, heading towards a crushing victory over India at Eden Gardens ( Calcutta ) after their hosts lost eight wickets while scoring 120 runs in pursuit of 254, were awarded victory by default after crowd unrest broke out in protest against the Indian performance.

The police broke through the crowd and began beating the boy, while the crowd pelted the police with food, rocks, and chunks of concrete.

His mother worked with the Anti-Corn Law League, and Pankhurst's paternal grandfather was present at the Peterloo Massacre, when cavalry charged and broke up a crowd demanding parliamentary reform.

When an agitated crowd forced their way into the town hall in Cologne on March 3, two city councillors panicked and jumped out of the window ; one of them broke both his legs.

Later that day the Arab crowd protested and broke into the refinery compound, killing 39 Jews and wounding 49.

While the tribes were being assembled, a skirmish broke out on the outskirts of the crowd as Tiberius ' supporters were attempting to block a group of his opponents from entering into the area to mingle about.

When he realized the crowd was not letting up and their love for him was real, he broke down in tears while waving and mouthing " thank you ".

The young Colonel broke through the crowd and extricated the two priests, who then fled.

At the Olympic Stadium of Helsinki on September 10, 2011, the crowd broke the world record with 31 rounds.

A large crowd broke into the jail with sledgehammers, beat the men, and hanged them.

On October 30, 2010, the crowd at the Rally to Restore Sanity and / or Fear broke a 19-year record in Saturday ridership, with 825, 437 trips.

Fights broke out around the ring and the crowd continued to boo for 20 minutes.

At dawn, the crowd broke in to the palace.

During that first show, Lenny broke the news to the stunned crowd and stated it was not a time to be sad but rather a time to celebrate because he is now in Heaven.

On the substitutes ' bench for a match against Valenciennes, Platini was spat on and hit by various objects thrown from the crowd when a fight broke out in the stands.

The crowd started heckling after the replica cup broke apart, while the Spokane Chiefs took apart the trophy and shared it around with teammates.

On March 23, Catholic Irish apprentices in York, furious at Mackenzie's attack on Bishop Macdonnell, pelted Mackenzie and Ketchum with garbage ; riots broke out in York later that day and Mackenzie might have been killed by the crowd, but for the intervention of Tory magistrate James FitzGibbon.

In the early afternoon, the crowd broke into the undefended outer courtyard and the chains on the drawbridge to the inner courtyard were cut.

The 1999 National Rugby League Grand Final, played on 26 September between the Melbourne Storm and the St George Illawarra Dragons, broke the rugby league world-record crowd previously set earlier in the season when 107, 999 came to watch the Storm defeat the Dragons 20 – 18.

One of the five 20-foot blades broke off and flew into a crowd of passengers waiting to board.

The burning jets broke up and crashed, including one that careened into a crowd of spectators.

Caesar ignored this, and set the date upon which the vote was to take place ; on the day of the vote, Bibulus and two of his tribunes mounted the steps of the Temple of Castor and attempted to denounce the bill, upon which the crowd broke his fasces, pushed him to the ground and dumped feces on him.

The first rows of the crowd were crushed or suffocated by those behind them, and were eventually trampled when the doors finally broke under pressure.

Ramey could hear the crowd coming up rapidly behind him and the questioning voices coming over his shoulder had no identity or importance to him.

The crowd consequently breaks up into temporary groups ranging in size from two to six, with a half-life for the cluster ranging from three to twenty minutes.

It was a quarter of seven when the crowd washed me up among the other gallants who had established the Astor steps as the beach-head from which to launch their night of merrymaking.

At 7:25 two hotel doormen came thumping down the steps, carrying a saw-horse to be set up as a barricade in front of the haberdashery store window next to the entranceway, and as I watched them in their gaudy red coats that nearly scraped the ground, their golden, fringed epaulets and spic, red-visored caps, I suddenly saw just over their shoulders Jessica gracefully making her way through the crowd.

" The crowd, by Wirt's account, jumped up and shouted " To Arms!

Upon descending the plane on his wheelchair, he stood up and saluted the cheering crowd of supporters, including an army band playing his favorite military march tunes, which was awaiting him at the airport in Santiago.

Thus the interior of a metal is filled up with a large number of unattached electrons that travel aimlessly around like a crowd of displaced persons.

The school spirit aspect of cheerleading involves cheering, supporting, and " pumping up " the crowd at football games, basketball games, and even wrestling meets.

After several misadventures, and escaping from Pontius Pilate, the fugitive winds up in a lineup of would-be mystics and prophets who harangue the passing crowd in a plaza.

But instead of paying up, local police officers panicked and tried to get rid of Miss Phombeya ( now visibly parading her anger in front of the verandah restaurant ) in the process hurting her toe ; whereupon a crowd soon gathered outside Ryall's Hotel and quickly the mood shifted from the ' hurting toe ' to protesting the imprisonment of Banda and other local leaders by the federation government.

In the late 1980s, the warm up stretches performed by Merv Hughes would often be mimicked by the crowd at Bay 13.

At a fundraiser in a small town outside of Portland, the group stood up and outed him in front of the crowd.

Odysseus ' son Telemachus is about 20 years old and is sharing his absent father ’ s house on the island of Ithaca with his mother Penelope and a crowd of 108 boisterous young men, " the Suitors ", whose aim is to persuade Penelope to marry one of them, all the while enjoying the hospitality of Odysseus ' household and eating up his wealth.

Many people were trampled and some ended up trapped underneath crowd control barriers that were pushed over in the chaos.

Two weeks later, on Thursday, 1 February 1979, Khomeini returned in triumph to Iran, welcomed by a joyous crowd of up to five million people ,< ref >

His best-known miracle is said to have taken place when he was preaching in the middle of a large crowd at the Synod of Brefi: the village of Llanddewi Brefi is said to stand on the spot where the ground on which he stood is reputed to have risen up to form a small hill.

" After an officer picked her up and heaved her into the back of the wagon, the crowd became a mob and went " berserk ": " It was at that moment that the scene became explosive ".

The show was designed to appear to fall apart as it progressed: Penn pretended to grow angrier with the crowd, and lighting effects and music would become increasingly chaotic, all building up to the point where Penn was dragged off stage and returned, handcuffed to a wheelchair, to deliver his last monologue.

* May 14 – A female suicide bomber blows up explosives strapped to her waist in a crowd of thousands of Muslim pilgrims, killing at least 18 people in Chechnya.

She got her first taste of singing solo at a fire hall, where she soaked up the crowd ’ s appreciation.

Adams escaped through the back and large punch bowls were set up to lure the crowd outside.

While those on whom the Spirit had descended were speaking in tongues, the Apostle Peter stood up with the eleven and proclaimed to the crowd that this event was the fulfillment of the prophecy (" I will pour out my spirit ") In Acts 2: 17, it reads: "' And in the last days ,' God says, ' I will pour out my spirit upon every sort of flesh, and your sons and your daughters will prophesy and your young men will see visions and your old men will dream dreams.

An estimated crowd of between 310, 000 and 335, 000 visitors showed up for opening day, as opposed to the expected crowd of 200, 000.

Churchill singled him out from the crowd and stated, " Young man, you did a fine thing to give up your film career to fight for your country.