Word: swarmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There seems to be something about soccer that stirs fans to violence. Bloody riots break out every now and then at soccer games in Latin countries, and I.S.L. fans display some of that same ferocity. At one game this year a swarm of fans outraged by a referee's decision rushed onto the field, bloodied the referee's nose and ripped the shirt off his back. "With soccer fans it's more than a game," said a shaken I.S.L. official...
Once the happy fisherman is ashore and his catch is measured and weighed, other kinds of fish swarm around him. He pays the captain ($110), throws in a tip ($10), poses for a photograph with his marlin ($2), gets loaded up with certificates and buttons attesting his fortitude and skill (free). Then, while he is weak with pride, a stranger comes up to him, bubbles congratulations and whips out an order pad. "Guess you'll be wanting it mounted," he says...
...about to muster his mob for an all-or-nothing attack on Duvalier. He and his brother Harry, 45, were hiding in a straw hut at the edge of a sugar-cane field, six miles north of Port-au-Prince. But this time someone tipped off Duvalier. A swarm of government goons surrounded the hut and set fire to the field. The Barbot brothers and three henchmen stumbled out through the smoke and flames-smack into a hail of bullets...
...shadow sweeps across North America to the populated parts of Canada and Maine, amateur observers will swarm to greet it. The path of totality will cut through Maine in a 60-mile swath where a deep twilight will fall. As seen from Boston, the sun will be 94.4% covered. In New York the crescent will look thicker: 88.7% covered; in St. Louis, 67.1%. In Los Angeles the sun will be dented (26.4% ); in Mexico City barely nicked...
Jack Nilon, front man for Heavyweight Champion Sonny Listen, pushed his way through the swarm of admirers. "I'm ready for Liston," Clay told him, "but only if the price is right. I'll draw the crowd-not him." Nilon nodded. "I've come 3,500 miles to get you," he said. "The price will be right...