Word: swarmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...good pun and a useful one in a century overburdened with Bonapartes. Like a swarm of corpulent drones they rose from the thickets of Corsica and fell with a sodden thump on the sinecures of empire. Noisy, ugly, greedy, provincial, quarrelsome, ostentatious, lewd and downright criminal, they terrorized Europe off and on from 1801 to 1870 and frightened Napoleon himself almost as much as the Grand Alliance did. All through his reign they ridiculed, insulted and cheated him, and when he needed them most a number of them cynically betrayed him to his enemies. Of all modern dynasties, the Bonapartes...
...SCENE TWO. Saturday afternoon in Chelsea. Up from the Sloane Square tube station swarm the guys and dollies, girls in miniskirts (three to six inches above the knee) or bell-bottom trousers. The morning has been spent "raking" among the Edwardian bric-a-brac, dusty candelabra and other antiques in the stalls on Portobello Road. Now, as if by a common instinct, the whole flock homes in on King's Road, site of such bird boutiques as Bazaar, and Granny Takes a Trip, as well as Hung On You, the "kinkiest" (wildest) men's shop, which features...
...coming monsoon, and Air Cav Commander Major General Harry W. O. Kinnard had given his Flying Horsemen orders to do just that in Operation Lincoln. But the enemy was nowhere to be found. Then a bullet pinged into a chopper from below. Nosing down like angry hornets, a swarm of Hueys carrying a 32-man reconnaissance platoon spotted three Viet Cong on the run, landed near by in the hope of capturing them. They had indeed discovered the enemy -a full battalion of entrenched Red troops. As the forest erupted in gunfire, the platoon radioed for help...
...help harvest it, the bureau has developed outsized, bag-shaped trawling nets and telemetry gear that help pinpoint the schools, which swarm at depths of 300 ft. to 600 ft. Two commercial trawlers recently began using the gear, have been pulling up enormous catches of as much as 120,000 lbs. Last week the bureau offered to outfit a dozen more ships with the equipment, which is worth $14,000, in return for permission to conduct further experiments on board the vessels...
...Musliner and Rick Kolombatovich will tangle with a swarm of talented swordsmen in foil. Because only foils are used in New York high schools, competition in this weapon is usually stiffer than in sabre or epee. Columbia's Steve Weinstein and Bruno Santonocito and Penn's Steve Permut will tangle for first place...