Word: swarmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dartmouth is cracking down on the hordes of "free loaders" from Harvard, Yale, and other schools that swarm over the Hanover campus during big weekends...
Running tandem with the Bogart-Hepburn travelling tryst is some of the most spectacular scenery Africa possesses. Waterfalls, steaming jungles, and endless papyrus marshes are caught with such remarkable realism that when Bogie and Katic are attacked by a swarm of insects, everybody in the theatre started scratching. The jungle is definitely one of the actors in The African Queen, and thanks to the Technicolor camera and its own loathsome inhabitants, it does a very fine...
Where most designers show only a handful of originals, industrious Mme. Veneziani startled everybody by reeling off so many -(130, mainly sportswear) that she had her mannequins parade four and five at once to save time. When she was done, even her rivals cast aside professional jealousy to swarm around her, crying, "Bravissimo!n and bussing her plump cheek. Overcome, Veneziani broke down and wept. Said a California department-store buyer: "The entire American sports world should have been here...
...Erding, the base near Munich from which they had flown their C-47 39 days ago, they were enveloped by a heartfelt greeting from families and friends. Next day, after military intelligence officers and a State Department specialist had quizzed the airmen, the four faced a swarm of newsmen and photographers. As commander of the aircraft, Captain Henderson told how the captives had fared at the hands of the Reds. As he spoke, he fumbled nervously with typewritten notes; at times his voice broke with emotion...
...brought a swarm of hungry, would-be film makers to Hollywood, often with no more equipment than a desk, a chair and an idea. One of the eager idea-men is Marc Frederic, 40, an ex-department-store buyer who was short on cash but long on inspiration. Luckier than most, he joined forces two years ago with Gifford Phillips, an heir to the Jones & Laughlin steel fortune, who had both money and the conviction that film was going to be the biggest thing in television...