Word: swarmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eleven-point question is not whether Van Doren will go on gambling on TV but whether his whole career may-not be about to veer again. His celebrity has drawn a swarm of offers: to appear on TV as guest star, panelist, moderator of his own series, to edit almanacs and write magazine articles. Barry & Enright want him to join them later as a consultant, and NBC is preparing to make him an offer as a performer. Says Charlie: "Everybody in the world knows what I should do except me. Before last November, I knew I wanted to teach...
...when they left the service of the Russian secret police and were granted asylum in Australia. The story of the Petrovs-as they tell it themselves-is fascinating and informative on two counts. It gives a salutary refresher course in the feeding and breeding habits of the pestiferous swarm of Soviet agents at work outside Russia. And it gives a self-portrait of the "new" Soviet citizen to whom freedom is a myth and all the Christian charities of Western life are not even a memory. Moreover, unlike the stories of Kravchenko in the U.S., Gouzenko in Canada or Krivitsky...
...bees make no immediate decision, but the scouts continue to dance their reports after the swarm has separated and is hanging on a bush. Some favor a hollow tree 300 yards away; others have found a cranny under a barn floor. Often there are many factions, each dancing in a different direction. The debate may continue for several days...
While each dancing faction is still pushing its own choice, the swarm makes no move. Then one by one the factions dwindle, as scouts become converted to rival points of view. Finally all the scouts are boosting the same site. Only then does the swarm take wing and permit itself to be led to its new home...
...Lindauer. is almost always effective, and generally the choice of the winning faction is the best available site. Once in a while, however, the demo cratic process fails an unlucky colony. In one tragic case, the factions debated for 14 days and reached no decision. At last the swarm built its nest in the open, and perished during the winter...