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...itself. Their brushes could catch a moment in the life of a town, as in L. J. Cranstone's Street, or impose upon an ordinary scene a kind of theatrical grandeur, as in A. Z. Shindler's Cemetery. One English visitor observed that "the country seemed to swarm with painters," and as the artists headed West in search of new wonders, another commentator said that he "doubted if the brush had "ever followed so hard on the rifle...
Ernie Ziesis departs at guard, but a whole swarm of people led by captain Bill Southmayd are eager to step up. The replacement problem is a little greater at end, where All-Ivy candidate Dave Hudepohl and Pat Young have played their final games...
...between Britain and her foes, between the "blessed plot" and the "envy of less happier lands." Today, Paris-London jets pass over the Channel tides in three minutes; nuclear missiles would blast across in as many seconds. The balance of envy has changed. Increasingly prosperous Britons, who swarm across to the Continent by the thousands each summer, return with European notions of comfort, elegance and efficiency that have breached England's insularity more surely than any invader...
Taylor's tulips were the vanguard of the 1962 class of the periodical cicada-more popularly known as the 17-year locust. Her swarm was the forerunner of a wave called "Brood II," which will soon take over most of the Eastern seaboard from North Carolina to Connecticut. According to Dr. B. A. Porter, entomologist at the Plant Industry Station in Beltsville, Md., the 1962 plague should be in full swing (and cry) by the end of May, should taper off about the first of July...
...jungle silence just before dawn. At the signal the "firepower" detachment of regulars hammers the fort with mortar shells and machine-gun fire. From another direction come the Viet Cong assault troops. Blasting a wray through the barbed wire with explosives tied to the end of a pole, they swarm over the rampart screaming "Tien-len [Forward]'" and pour a withering fire into the startled defenders...