Word: aswarm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Parts of the underground economy are highly visible. Most big cities are aswarm with street hawkers, who sell from boxes and truck tailgates an astonishing variety of jewelry, clothes, toiletries, fruits vegetables and assorted schlock. Some of the stuff is "hot"; last year about $2 billion in merchandise and food was hijacked from trucks or stolen from warehouses. The rest is distress merchandise that has not moved on the store shelves and is dumped at large discounts to middlemen, who field it out to street hawkers. City governments are trying to collect sales taxes from the vendors, but the vast...
...Somerset County calls it "an aggravation." Some of Somerset's oft-bitten residents would describe it in considerably stronger terms. Because of heavy rainfall, muggy weather and high tides that keep water overly long in the salt marshes of the state's Eastern Shore, the area is aswarm with mosquitoes. To determine how bad the infestation really is, the state's department of agriculture sent human volunteers into a mosquito-infested marsh and had them stand still for 60 seconds. As many as 100 mosquitoes per minute landed on the volunteers' exposed skin and clothing. That...
...this week's convention. The Rev. Robert Holbrook of Halletsville, Texas, has sent out 15,000 letters asking support for a resolution against abortion. Yet another petitioner calls for the abolition of rock music on the church's "powerline" radio program because all such music is aswarm with "adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, heresies and revelings...
...ambassador-required the services of 109 elephants. The crowning of King Mahendra in 1956, attended by representatives of 15 of the growing number of nations with which the Himalayan kingdom then exchanged diplomats, required 43. For last week's coronation of King Birendra, the streets of Katmandu were aswarm with hundreds of foreign guests representing the some 60 countries with which Nepal now has relations. But only 23 elephants took part...
...ASWARM of 161 potential China pundits arrived at Kirkland House on July 4 to begin ten days of apprenticeship with Harvard's most celebrated Sinologist, John K. Fairbank, and his wife, Wilma, at the Alumni College...