There was a noisy crowd of people buying gold in all its forms from jewelry to bars.

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Specter also faced a noisy crowd at a second event later in the day in Lewisburg, while McCaskill heard similar conservative arguments at her meeting in Hillsboro, Missouri, outside St.

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Gordon received noisy backing from the Hampden crowd, who were cheering his name throughout the win, which was secured thanks to goals from Ross McCormack and Steven Fletcher.

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Meanwhile, police expert Professor Peter Waddington from Wolverhampton University says the tactic owes its genesis to a dilemma faced by officers confronted with a noisy, and possibly violent, crowd.

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Hoisting himself up on a step ladder above the noisy elbow-to-elbow crowd, he gave a rousing speech laced with his trademark wit and intriguing brand of Republican populism ("I'm a conservative, but I'm not mad at anybody, " he likes to say).

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In turn the crowd are a lot more noisy than at Wimbledon and very supportive of the US players.

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The idea was to simulate the possible noisy atmosphere competitors would face from a crowd during the real Games.

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