Word: swarmed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about slapping faces, seizing cigars and pipes, and crying that everyone at Harvard was a hellion. The students enjoyed every bit of it, and proceeded to swarm about her and sweep to Sanders Theatre. The boys smashed their way through the door and triumphantly carried Mrs. Nation onto the stage. The crusader again attempted to speak, but the hall vociferously drowned her out. Someone presented her with a bunch of chrysanthemums, which she accepted with profuse bows and acknowledgements...
...give an order. He neither seeks nor avoids publicity, is completely undisturbed by the fact that more colorful generals are better known to the Allied public. He dislikes military fanfare. On a visit. to General Leese's Eighth Army headquarters last week he was escorted by a swarm of motorcycles with sirens screaming. Before starting back to his headquarters he thanked and dismissed them. "Awfully bad manners," he said, "to have those chaps chasing the troops off the roads...
This week, stung to speech by a swarm of critics, Cordell Hull presented the most reasonable and persuasive defense of the Administration's foreign policy yet officially offered. His keynote: be patient-perhaps for a long time...
...produced by Dave Wolper) has a number of virtues and two faults-its music and its book. Since the two mean hardly less to musicomedy than mountains and lakes mean to Switzerland, Follow the Girls falls short of perfection. But for the unchoosy pleasure-seekers and visiting firemen who swarm over Broadway, it should nicely fill the bill. It spills over with good humor. It boasts a lot of good people-likably tough Singer Gertrude Niesen, likably loony Comic Jackie Gleason, pert Dancer Dorothy Keller, graceful Ballerina Irina Baronova. Its dancing has zest and spin. Its girls are good-looking...
...industries screamed for Brazilian raw materials, many of them obtainable nowhere else. Down from the States came a swarm of experts and near-experts to advise and plan and buy. So many arrived in the fall of 1942 that Brazilians called them "paraquedistas" (paratroopers). Not all were well chosen. At first they were new to the country, poorly coordinated, confused by Washington rivalries. But they gradually got together under the leadership of Ambassador Jefferson Caffery, did their big job fairly well. The only bad mess was the wild rubber program in the Amazon Valley, where Americans did not take proper...