Word: swarmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...medieval days any dog, hog, horse, donkey, mouse, rat, beetle or swarm of flies charged with a crime could get a fair trial-complete with sharp-tongued defense attorney and a day before the bench. When a sow was hanged for devouring its young, a dog executed for biting children, or a rat pack or fly swarm ordered exterminated, there was no question about it: the whole legal system of the 15th century was in there pitching...
...London center gathers its reports on locusts and weather from every available source. Meteorologists and entomologists constantly check their maps to decide whether a sighted swarm is likely to prove dangerous. Trouble is that few of the 300 weather stations spread from Spain to India are in the uninhabited desert, where locusts get their start. Until recently, it was often impossible to predict the behavior of a swarm that had been spotted in one of those empty places...
...worst aspects of his writing are becoming accentuated as he ages. His latest novel, Triumph, treats the Third World War with hysteria and platitudes; his improbable plot is no more than an unwieldy vehicle to parade Wylie's ideas on desegregation, prejudice, sex, miscegenation, brotherly love and a swarm of other fascinating topics. Unfortunately for the novel, Wylie's ideas of these and all other matters are insipid. His book is the dullest piece of writing you can find anywhere on the best-seller list...
Princeton boasts one scoring threat in John Cook, a fine but shell-shocked goalie in Bill Hill, and nothing else. When Princeton was in Cambridge two weeks ago, a virtually non-existent defense allowed Crimson forwards to swarm all over Hill (55 saves) and the Tiger offense managed only nine shots all evening...
...were these new rulers? In the modern mode, Aref, 41, gritted his teeth and presented himself at the Baghdad Hotel for the inevitable press conference with the swarm of foreign correspondents, an ordeal he seemed to regard as in some ways worse than the historic night of the coup itself. More than a hundred shouting reporters and photographers pushed aside his tommy-gun-waving guard and crowded around Iraq's boss to hear Aref speak freely about the aims and purposes of the new government. He said something about an end to one-man rule, friendship with all Arab...