Children gathered around in anticipation.
As I was trying to catch the attention of dozens of children who had gathered around, attracted by new visitors, the car, but mostly the cameras, a tall woman with a determined look on her face spoke up and firmly asserted: "Me, I have stories to tell you.
Passers-by gathered around the two men, some cheering and pumping their fists.
Sometime on Tuesday evening, presumably, the best minds that Romney has gathered around him, convened by conference call, or offered their thoughts individually, and all of them thought it was a capital idea, solely on the basis of statements from the Embassy in Cairo, to accuse Obama and his Administration of expressing sympathy "with those who waged the attacks".
At about noon, a woman who was director of the hospital called a meeting of the staff in light of the stories being told by the hundreds of people who were gathered around the facility, and by the wounded who had been brought inside.
A crowd gathered around Irving Feiner, upset by his words and suspicious he might be a communist sympathizer.
As they gathered around the food prepared by villagers, members of the Taliban's elite force — known as the Red Unit — arrived and told them to leave.
"At the Vatican this morning, representatives of every faith in the world attended," he said to a crowd gathered around a makeshift altar by the green's flagpole.
As I walked west down Bleecker Street, I noticed a large crowd gathered around the Hotel Greenwich, right by the Village Gate.
In the Oval Room, guests gathered around Raphael's "Fornarina," lent by the National Gallery of Art at the Palazzo Barberini in Rome and shown for the first time in America.
The space walk, which was broadcast live and watched by crowds gathered around outdoor television screens, further stoked national pride a month after the close of the Beijing Olympics.
