Word: swarm
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...high place as one of the foremost men of English letters. In 1948, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature and the Order of Merit (one of the highest British orders, limited to 24 members). In his critical essays, he has rendered Olympian judgments. Fellow critics swarm about Critic Eliot like an army of Lilliputians, trying to tie him down to some systematic "school"; when he stirs to reverse one of his previous unfavorable decisions (as he has been known to do, notably in the case of Milton), the swarm is agog for months...
...TIME, Jan. 9), but last week the rivals glowered over Bengal. In that northeastern region, divided between Pakistan's East Bengal and India's West Bengal, there has been more than a month of savage rioting. Though no one has yet computed total casualties and damage, a swarm of Hindu refugees has fled from Moslem terror in East Bengal (where 29 million Moslems live with 13 million Hindus), while Hindu mobs have struck back at Moslems in West Bengal (where 17 million Hindus live with 5 million Moslems...
...chillers. The blast effects of hydrogen bombing, Brown told his nationwide audience, will be only the beginning; the radioactive aftereffects will be far worse. Hydrogen explosions, he said, will fill the air with fiercely radiating isotopes. They will drift with the wind, he believes, like a swarm of invisible locusts, killing people, animals, insects, plants...
...ceremonies in connection with the Year of San Martin. Police cutters were hastily ordered out, with machine guns at the ready, to escort the presidential yacht. Police jeeps raced along the banks of the river spotting "intriguers." At the ceremony itself, the President could hardly be seen for the swarm of blue-uniformed police who surrounded...
...started with an advertising man's dream-a vision of a helpless, pliable throng, ears open and guards down, known in the trade as a "captive audience." Trapped in Manhattan's cavernous Grand Central Terminal, where each day 500,000 persons swarm to & fro, was the biggest audience in captivity. The temptation was irresistible. Grand Central expanded its public address system into a small broadcasting studio, laid in a supply of canned music, syrupy-voiced announcers and loudspeakers (82 of them), and went into business. Advertisers eagerly paid $1,800 a week for the privilege of spraying music...