Word: swarmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...party for 32 of David's recent campmates. "The President and his staff, Dwight David Eisenhower II, invite the members of Sky Line Ranch to Byers Peak Ranch for a luncheon," read the invitation. Ike found himself surrounded and cut off by a swarm of pop-eyed youngsters. "Boy, I've never met a President before!" said one little boy. "A lot of people twice your age have never met one either" confided...
...regulars have their appointed places. At Rosati's Café, strollers can spot most nights Novelist Alberto Moravia, Foreign Minister Gaetano Martino, Vice Premier Giuseppe Saragat, or, after Midnight, Film Star Anna Magnani and Director Vittorio De Sica. Across the street, the Strega's tables swarm with so many starlets and bit players that harried directors have been known to hustle over and do some fast casting on the spot. Most international is the Caffè; Doney, where newsboys hawk the London Daily Telegraph, France-Soir and Variety, and waiters accept orders for milkshakes or ham-and-eggs...
...July day in 1789, a swarm of sweaty, shouting men armed with muskets, staves and pikes, stormed the grim Bastille, prison of French kings. The triumphant revolutionists proudly drew up a Declaration of Rights "for all men, for all lands, for all times, and to give an example to the world." From that day, in the flood tide of the Enlightenment, France took to itself the role of custodian of liberty and torchbearer to mankind...
Like the edge of a locust swarm, the frontier of Commuterland advances, driving the farmers before it and leaving deposits of white colonial mansions and wrought-iron signs upon the green, tumbled land. But just ahead of the chirking mass, beyond the last bounds of a commuter's endurance, past the Levittowns and past Newyorkerland with its split-level houses and split-personality admen and Wall Streeters, lies the land of Dinner Party. It is rich farmland which no one farms, populated by Men who have Made their Mark and their families. Their wives scorn elegance in favor...
Churchmen, like businessmen and bees, tend to swarm in the late spring. Last week the denominational convention season was well under way, and elections, budgets and resolutions filled...