Word: swarmed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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National Chairman Bob Hannegan, in & out of the White House all week long, turned up once with a whole swarm of 21 freshman Democratic candidates. Former Ambassador to Russia Joe Davies dropped by, announced that he was bullish on Democratic prospects...
...Like a swarm of antennaed monsters, the combines of the itinerant harvesters had followed the ripening grain northward through Texas and Oklahoma. Now, from the eastern foothills of the Rockies along the hundreds of miles of plains to the Missouri River, they worked in ripening fields alongside the farmers who had planted it. Wheat was in the air; it was in the eyes and hair and the hearts and minds of almost everyone...
Through the cloisters of Cairo's Cathedral of St. Mark filed an excited swarm of sweating, portly pashas to elect a new patriarch, the 114th successor to St. Mark as Pope of Egyptian Christianity. Among the electors, for the first time, were both Egyptian laymen and swarthy delegates of the Ethiopian Coptic Church. The choice: Archbishop Anba Yussab, 63, whose flowing white beard gives him a proper patriarchal dignity. Ordained 40 years ago in a desert monastery founded by St. Anthony, he later studied theology in Athens,* was an abbot in Jerusalem during World War I, when he showed...
...possible. Anyone who doubted that could look at Europe's diet statistics, or, better, at such typically present-day European scenes as took place daily in Italy. As U.S. Army trucks carry garbage to dumps, Italians on bicycles fall in behind. When a truck stops, they swarm over it, snatching its scraps...
Quest for Food. The colony builds long tunnels to sources of food. If a tunnel is broken, an order of unknown origin brings workers with repair materials. In dry districts the colony sinks deep wells to maintain the humidity it requires. Many termites' intestines swarm with microscopic organisms which help them digest the wood which is their standard food. Without these symbiotic helpers, these termites...