Word: swarm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...land mass for a considerable time during each revolution. Two or three satellites would pro vide the U.S.S.R. with communications day and night. This may be all that the Russians are planning, but a powerful satellite sending strong, clear radio propaganda mixed with entertainment to the transistor radios that swarm in every country would be a powerful and potentially dangerous influence. The J.S. could set up the same sort of system, of course, and so could other countries...
Down 4-2 after the singles, Harvard swept all three doubles matches for the 5-4 margin, to the utter horror and disbelief of a swarm of Princeton rooters...
...years by President Tryggve Holm, 60, a modest, slide-rule-toting engineer. Holm insists on creativity in design, quality and efficiency in production, has instituted an incentive piecework plan that spurs employees on to faster work. Another Holm plan ensures that quality does not suffer from speed: Saab factories swarm with inspectors, one for every 16 workers...
Walt Hewlett rode the tall of a swarm of Japanese yesterday to place 21st in the 19th annual Boston Marathon. Staying with the top 20 throughout most of the 4-mile, 385-yard race, Hewlett found the set by the tough international enquries just a bit too much, and had to for a time 16 minutes slower than Shigematau's winning...
...Bourget Airport. Once they were inside, one of the troupe's two "bodyguards" grimly stationed himself at the main exit. As he did, a young, sullen-faced dancer in an ill-fitting grey suit drifted away from the group. Then, suddenly hurrying his pace, he disappeared into the swarm of travelers. The second bodyguard gave chase, frantically pawed his way through the crowd until he found the dancer hiding behind a pillar. "I won't go!" the dancer screamed, and they began to grapple. Wrenching himself free, the dancer bolted into the airport bar and flung himself into...