Word: swarmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...service trades, and party and government organizations into great and truly revolutionary schools like the liberation army itself." How the army would go about providing the schools has not yet been spelled out. Perhaps the army, with its highly developed political and counter-intelligence services, would provide cadres to swarm across China, carrying the Mao message...
...young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net." Today's middle-agers not only dot the greens, they vault the net. They sail, ski, waterski, skin-dive and spelunk. They swim, walk and climb. They fish, hunt, camp and swarm all over the great outdoors from Big Sur to Cape Cod. They are a participating rather than a spectator generation...
...vast swath of the nation's most fertile farm land, crops and cattle sautéed under the searing sun; an Agriculture Department spokesman warned that farmers were "right on the brink of disaster." A swarm of rattlesnakes invaded little Harrison, Neb., looking for water; southwest of Chicago, heat-crazed frogs swarmed by the thousands across parched fields...
...spectacularly beautiful cliffs up to 7,000 ft. high. The valley has campsites for 9,348 people, lodge and hotel accommodations for another 4,500. That is scarcely sufficient for the 20,000 tourists who jam the valley every day all summer, let alone the 45,000 who swarm there on holiday weekends...
...appreciate it or cannot afford it). One Greek word for a private person was "idiot," which, then as now, carried implications of ignorance -or at least a large indifference to civic concern. The tribe knew no privacy, and even the lord of the feudal manor lived in a swarm of servants, children and relatives, often all of them sleeping around the edges of the big hall where the fireplace was. Until the start of the 18th century, rooms in even the grandest houses led into each other. In those days, as Lewis Mumford has pointed out, a lady...