Word: swarmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pile, had probably already climbed and descended the highest minaret. "Then I figured he would try the second-highest minaret," recalls Clyde. "But I couldn't find anything there, not even footprints. Then I heard a buzzing sound above me and looked up, and there was a swarm of blueflies. The body was up there on a ledge...
...independence before a gigantic Polish-American picnic in Chicago. He hopped back to Washington to preside over the Senate. Then he was off to work his way through the vast U.S. World Trade Fair in Manhattan's Coliseum, where he could hardly see the exhibits for the swarm of reporters and photographers that buzzed around...
...procession of tourists that begins this time of year to swarm in ever increasing numbers through London's great British Museum, the famed Elgin Marbles may be the museum's best-known treasure. But equally magnificent in their way are the bas-reliefs (see color pages) from the palace of Assurbanipal, King of Assyria in the 7th century B.C. These shallow tablets recall an empire that once included Egypt on the south and Asia Minor on the north, with all the Fertile Crescent in between...
Despite all the heady talk about sending men into space in the not too distant future, many a practical problem remains far from solution. One of the most formidable : protecting space travelers from the deadly radiation that will swarm about them...
...scramble for new oil has attracted a swarm of scrappy independent wildcatters - to the great concern of the industry's giants. The independents are drilling all over the world, cutting prices, moving into long-established markets - thanks to a tanker surplus that provides them with dirt-cheap transport. All told, some 250 companies, many of them either new or making their first ventures abroad, are searching for oil in more than 80 countries...