Word: swarmed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...confusion that followed, a swarm of Harvard players and Lutz converged on the ball. Almost scared of being featured on a football "bloopers" film, nobody reacted to the ball, until Gordian finally scooped it up and then stood in place for a moment. Still surrounded by several Crimson players, Gordian finally turned towards the Princeton goalline--evoking images of a compass reorienting itself towards the North Pole--and rumbled past and over the beleaguered Lutz and into the end zone...
...Passage, Auel has fleshed out the stone-and- bone discoveries of archaeology to create a fully realized world for her prehistoric heroine, Ayla. In the latest 757-page volume, Ayla sets forth from her home among the Mammoth Hunters of the Eurasian steppes and, braving blizzards, a locust swarm and a fall into a glacier crevasse, reaches what is now the Dordogne, in southwest France. The region harbors a rich trove of ! Upper Paleolithic remains, including the mystically painted caverns. The Lascaux cave "overwhelms me," Auel says. "These weren't dumb savages...
George Bush knows how to talk about children. With a sure sense of childhood's mythology, of skinned knees and candy apples and first bicycles, he campaigned for office in a swarm of jolly grandchildren and promised justice for all. In this year's State of the Union address, he mentioned families and "kids" more than 30 times -- the electronic equivalent of kissing babies on the village green. "To the children out there tonight," he declared as he built to his finale, "with you rests our hope, all that America will mean in the years ahead. Fix your vision...
...Beverly Hills police department must dread having to haul local teenage millionaires off to jail for a grisly crime: the tabloids swarm, the rumors fly, the suspects hire the best defense lawyers money can buy -- and all those involved (even the minor players) act as if they are characters in the first draft of a convoluted screenplay desperately in need of a rewrite. Thus it has been several miserable months for the prosecutors in charge of the Menendez murder investigation; they are fielding two young millionaires, charges of patricide, disputed psychotherapy records and flamboyant defense attorneys claiming that vital evidence...
...have disrupted computer networks. Doyne Farmer, a physicist at the Los Alamos lab, points to a cautionary science- fiction tale by Stanislaw Lem. In Lem's Fiasco, space explorers discover a Saturn-like planet with a ring around it. On closer inspection, the ring turns out to be a swarm of attack satellites and killer robots, part of a "star wars" defense shield that had reproduced itself over and over again. Artificial life, says Farmer, could turn out to be man's most beautiful creation. Or, like Lem's swarming robots, it could be a nightmare...