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Word: swarmed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Christian men and (more importantly) women, who are trying to live a less worldly life than their neighbors; to be more attentive to the guidance ... of the Holy Spirit. More and more, by a kind of fatality, you see them draw apart from their coreligionists, a hive ready to swarm. There is provocation on both sides . . . Then, while you hold your breath and turn away your eyes in fear, the break comes; condemnation or secession, what difference does it make? A fresh name has been added to the list of Christianities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Enthusiasm | 11/27/1950 | See Source »

...poet trying to tell you something? Or is he just muttering to himself? On the muddy banks between the clear running stream of communication and the swamp of self-expression squats a swarm of modern poets, patting mud-pies into shape for the admiration of themselves and their playmates. The much larger crowd of regular guys in the swimming hole jeer at these patty-cakers as sissies, but stand a little in awe of them too, seeing how cleverly they mold their incomprehensible mud images...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Prize Pies | 9/25/1950 | See Source »

...church and outlawed by the state. In reply, he declared: ". . . As they excommunicated me for the sacrilege of heresy, so I excommunicate them in the name of the sacred truth of God. Christ will judge whose excommunication will stand." He also said: "Why do we not . . . assault . . . the whole swarm of the Roman Sodom . . . and wash our hands in their blood?" Then for a year he went into hiding in the Wartburg, there to begin his translation of the Bible, a work as fundamental to the German language as the King James version is to English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Oak & the Ax | 9/18/1950 | See Source »

There are men who would be identified even on a roller coaster as Harvard professors. Randall Thompson '20, professor of Music, is not one of these. He is often to be seen on the roller coaster near Saunders-town, R. I., with a swarm of kids, and one would never suspect he was a ranking expert on the fugue...

Author: By Mary CHANNING Stokes, | Title: Randall Thompson | 6/5/1950 | See Source »

...patronage from the new governor, none at all from Harry Truman. A bill to legalize horse-race betting was laughed out of the legislature. Police raids on gambling joints continued. The President, annoyed that a noisome character like Binaggio should shunt aside his good friend Jim Pendergast, loosed a swarm of FBI men on him. A grand jury began investigating Binaggio and Kansas City crime. What was worse, the racketeers became insistent: an open city or their $100,000 back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISSOURI: Murder on Truman Road | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

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