Word: aswarm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Canton-Hankow run. By November, Director Tu had three expresses going each week. Now he has one daily leaving both north and south terminals. In half a year passenger and freight (rice, relief goods, tung oil, coal) mileage has doubled. Along the right of way, at every station, aswarm with people on the move, and ashrill with vendors of rice, cabbage, noodles and pig's ears, you can see a region's economic life, however shabby and stunted by American standards, stirring out of torpor...
...Frank Buchman, sexagenarian Oxford Group leader who returned to England last spring after seven years' absence, was now reported sitting on an Alp. The perch: Switzerland's sky-high Caux. The shelter: a former luxury hotel. Buchmanites had bought it and were aswarm there for a big postwar drive. Reported one of them happily: "The people of the neighborhood seem pleased...
...England out of a resigned preoccupation with its past. From the Penobscot to the Housatonic, shipyards clang. Spindles are singing again in textile mills, turning out Army uniforms. Pretty, white-spired New England villages, asleep in their history, have stirred themselves to produce millions of small war parts. Connecticut, aswarm with producers of firearms, propellers and engines, rightfully calls herself the No. 1 Arsenal in the Arsenal of Democracy. Small, bellicose Vermont was the first state to declare war on the Axis-nine weeks before Pearl Harbor, Vermont began paying soldier bonuses because the U.S. was "already in a shooting...
...been hard on the elite of Bucharest. The full and ample bellies of the great have shrunk. Once Bucharest had no peer in the confection of flaky pastries stuffed with creams, no rival in the sticky sweet aroma of the boulevards and bright cafes, aswarm with men & women who perfumed themselves instead of taking baths...
Toward the beaches, aswarm with incoming men and weapons, the tanks steadily advanced. A brigadier general of artillery, watching them, said to his companions: "I won't go back into the sea." Terry Allen said: "Hell, we haven't started to fight. Our artillery hasn't been overrun...