Word: swarmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would like to take serious objection and express my deep disgust with the cover . . . To portray China and her many people as a swarm of insects represents to me a new low in journalism...
Having proved themselves in combat, the Sabres may be useful as protective cover for bombers and for the slow, propeller-driven Mustangs which have been the Air Force's work horse for ground attack in the Korean war. If Russia decided to commit a swarm of fast jets, the Mustangs would be sitting ducks if unprotected-but not if top-covered by enough Sabres...
...dance has meaning, too. If the scout bee dances on the same spot, whirling first to the right, then to the left, it is telling the other bees that a honey source lies close to the hive. As they swarm out eagerly to look for it, the scout bee goes to another comb to tell the news to still more of its hive-mates...
Locustlike Swarm. Because it had wheels, the Eighth outdistanced the pursuing foe. Other than patrol actions and skirmishes, there was hardly any fighting last week in the western sector, but spokesmen both in the field and in Tokyo warned that the lull was deceptive. The intelligence estimate was that 18 divisions of Chinese were trying to come to grips with the Eighth Army. Chinese crossed the Taedong estuary in a vast fleet of power junks and small craft; farther back they waded the Chongchon and tinged the icy river with blood when allied airplanes strafed them. But the locustlike swarm...
This weekend, star gazers will be able to see a spectacular shooting star shower. Between now and Sunday, the earth passes through the swarm of little meteorites which seem to emerge from the constellation of the Gemini, the twins...