Word: swarm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hopefully, Harvard will not allow itself to degenerate into an intellectual factory capable of nothing more than spewing out a myriad of narrow-minded technicians and pedants. Hopefully, the scholars who swarm into and out smoked-filled rooms to discuss the Doty Report will not fail to notice the inscription which ornaments the backs of their little black chairs--Veritas...
...This is a land so vast," reports TIME'S Hong Kong bureau, "that winter snows are already howling across large areas of it while other expanses still simmer in humid tropical heat. A land so fragmented that millions upon millions of its human swarm cannot understand the dialect spoken by millions and millions more. So ancient that its past is a palpable presence, and so modern that it has jolted the world with an atomic explosion. So expansionist that its neighbors have lived in varied degrees of fear since before the birth of Christ, and so troubled internally that...
...their fairest ladies to the $150-a-seat benefit premiere of The Movie Version (see CINEMA). The traffic jam packed 14 blocks of Broadway so solidly that Star Audrey Hepburn had to desert her limousine to trek the last block to the theater. Still, the snafu gave the locust swarm of lensmen a heyday, feasting their flashbulbs on the likes of Jean Kennedy Smith and Mrs. Winston ("CeeZee") Guest, as well as a handful of Hollywood's last duchesses. Joan Fontaine simply glowed, Jennifer Jones fluttered a huge black boa, but Pepsi-Cola's sociable Joan Crawford...
...last-gasp Crimson effort was a spectacular show. With six Eagles playing back for pass defense, Zimmerman hit Ron Kram, then Carter Lord, and finally Welz to put the ball on the B.C. 24. On the fourth attempt a swarm of rushing linemen dragged Zimmerman down. The gun sounded before the Crimson could run another play...
...Place Masséna in full sight of dozens of startled tourists. Word went out to the warring gangs to stop shooting it out in downtown Nice and frightening visitors. To emphasize their concern, the police called for reinforcements from Paris and Marseille, and last week rounded up a swarm of clucking poules, from the $5 girls who hang out at the railway station to the $50 streetwalkers of the Rue Halévy. After a night in the violon (clink), the poules were warned to make themselves scarce. A bistro proprietor was gloomy about the police crackdown. "You watch...