Word: swarmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...confidence men evaded a swarm of swindled freshmen last night and escaped with an estimated fifty dollars. The two men, posing as College seniors, duped an estimated 25 students of two dollars apiece before the freshmen realized they were being hoaxed...
There were no such glum reflections in the Kremlin. Scarcely had Adenauer disappeared than a swarm of East Germans, headed by Premier Otto Grotewohl, flew in as if on cue In the next few days, the Kremlin resounded with revelry as masters and puppets staged a weird, diplomatic Walpurgisnacht dance of triumph, like so many witches cackling over some treacherous bargain. "We laugh at Adenauer," crowed Grotewohl, and Deputy Premier Otto Nuschke, with the Russians' beaming approval, deliberately mocked at every Adenauer claim of achievement. "What Premier Bulganin promised Adenauer about the release of ... prisoners was only the result...
Curly-haired Astronomer Fred Hoyle of Cambridge University takes delight in setting off mathematical firecrackers under his more conservative colleagues. Hoyle glories in the mysteries that swarm in the inexhaustible sky, and he believes that they should be attacked boldly-from all possible angles. In his new book, Frontiers of Astronomy (Harper; $5), he pelts most of the astronomical mysteries with showers of theories. Some of these theories, he says, "are well known and well tried, but sometimes they are less well known and sometimes they lie at the very frontiers of knowledge...
...other towns in eastern Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts, but Pilot William Draper was unwilling to continue in the face of turbulent weather and poor visibility. At 8:48 a.m.. the Columbine landed at Hartford's Bradley Field. At the airport were six governors, with a swarm of Government and Red Cross officials. In a nearby hangar, Ike listened while each governor in turn outlined the damage to his state. After the hour-long conference, the President promised that the Government would do everything possible, and appealed to the public for aid. "This is a chance where each...
...rugs and gadis, His Excellency Syed Amjad Ali, the Pakistani ambassador, sat in cross-legged splendor. He was dressed in gaudy sport clothes and a dark ten-gallon hat. A red and green silk beach umbrella shaded the ambassador from the direct touch of the cruel sun, and a swarm of sari-clad women from his household kept him and his guests plentifully supplied with cooling drinks...