Word: swarmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When a new product hits a "test market" city, P. & G. trucks roll slowly down the streets while teams of men swarm in & out of houses handing out samples. Big changes in a product are often made during such test-marketing. Cheer was first put out as a white detergent. Then someone suggested that it be dyed blue and tried out. The blue not only sold much better (especially among women who used bluing in their wash), but it also supplied a catchy ad slogan: "It's new! It's blue! It's Blue Magic...
...film seem less concerned with catching the Blue Bird than with making the audiences watch the Red birdie. But on the whole, the film is relatively free of Communist blurbs. The wonder is that the movie, with grace and sureness, finds images to portray the symbols that swarm beneath the surface of the story. Sadko is a spectacle-in adequate color-that need not pale beside Cecil B. DeMille. Dancers flash, warriors buffet, giant storms roll by with a verve that Hollywood can seldom induce. Above all, it is a spectacle that gives glimpses of the soul as well...
...19th century England, parents usually did-Leonard Woods Newman would have been a London tobacco broker. Apprenticed at 18, he began his career dutifully enough. Then, one warm June morning as he pedaled his bicycle to the Bexley railroad station, he fell in love-with a swarm of Clouded Yellow butterflies...
Narrowies & Broodies. Today, through the corridors of 14 red brick buildings in Horsham, Sussex, 840 boys swarm from class to class in their historic, monkish robes. Those robes have the same number of buttons (one large, six small) as they always had, and there are the same narrow belts ("narrowies") for the young boys and the same "broadies" for the older ones. When a boy becomes a "Grecian," i.e., gets ready to try for a scholarship to a university, he gets 14 large buttons and a coat with upturned velvet cuffs. The coats have yellow linings that date back...
...this happened, according to Hager, about 200,000 years ago. Much later, a great swarm of meteorites littered the pit and its vicinity with nickel-iron fragments...