Word: swarmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Venezuela, the baseball fans express themselves in fiery terms: hundreds of candles twinkle in the stands when they are happy, bonfires rage in the concrete bleachers when they are mad. In the Dominican Republic, they swarm onto the field in such purposeful rage that offending umpires have fled in the police paddy wagon. In Cuba, they salute a good play by spraying spectators across the diamond with a fusillade of Roman candles...
Game of Creation. Growing success has almost swamped Rudolph with commissions. With Anderson, Beckwith & Haible (also associates for the Wellesley arts center), Rudolph has designed Boston's new twelve-story Blue Cross-Blue Shield Building, in which air-conditioning ducts swarm over the facades like great vines. ("Mechanical equipment eats up 35% to 40% of the budget, and this is an area architects have simply not exploited.'') On his own, Rudolph has just had his design accepted for Yale's new Art and Architecture building ("All hell breaks loose on the roof"), is hard at work...
Where the Boys Are, by Glendon Swarthout. A comical investigation of a spring phenomenon: the collegian swarm to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., where the action is as hot and horizontal as the sand...
...Joshua Lederberg, Nobel-prizewinning geneticist of Stanford - University, doubted that instruments that do not actually land on a planet can determine whether it has life. Even if there are no large, conspicuous plants or animals to see from a distance, the soil may swarm with microscopic creatures, as does the earth's. Lederberg suggests equipping an interplanetary probe with a sort of artificial anteater that will stick out a tongue of transparent tape, touch it to the planet's soil, and draw it back again for study by a built-in microscope. The enlarged pictures of dust particles...
Where the Boys Are, by Glendon Swarthout. A comical, exaggerated investigation of the springtime phenomenon: the collegian swarm to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., where the action is as hot and horizontal as the sand...