Word: swarmed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...provoke censure, rap can outdo. Whereas metal is mostly suggestive, this urban-black music is often politically or sexually explicit. N.W.A. (Niggers With Attitude) won an admonishing letter from the FBI for their song FTha Police, in which the singer warns the ghetto's occupying force: "Ice Cube will swarm/ On any m f in a blue uniform . . ./ A young nigger on the warpath,/ And when I finish it's gonna be a bloodbath." Another group, Public Enemy, has been charged with anti-Semitism in their lyrics and statements to the press. But their songs are also critical of blacks...
...concern is that East Germans, who are streaming across the border, will strain the capacity of West German schools unless their own higher-education system improves quickly. In West Berlin alone, authorities are bracing for the arrival of some 1,500 East German students. These newcomers are expected to swarm to the city's 13 universities and institutes this week for the start of the summer semester...
...quite all U.S. Secretary of State James Baker could have hoped for. After a 35-minute session last Wednesday at Mandela's villa in Windhoek, where both men were on hand to witness the birth of Namibia as a free nation, Baker and Mandela emerged to face a swarm of reporters and photographers. Mandela criticized Baker's plans to meet with South African President F.W. de Klerk in Cape Town the next day. "We do not think there has been any fundamental change in the policy of the national government," he said...
...walk through the Soviet line toward the Tadzhiks, whose control of most of the city begins about 150 yds. away from the square. Tadzhiks quickly swarm around, suspicious and hostile. "We are American correspondents," I say, attempting to make it sound as though it's the most normal thing in the world for us to be there. I take out my notebook ostentatiously and begin to write. The complaints come thick and fast...
While protestors were raucously rallying outside Hemenway Gym yesterday, Harvard's men's squash team rallied to a peaceful 8-1 victory over Princeton. Despite the disruption of El Salvador President Alfredo Cristiani appearing with a swarm of Secret Service agents at his son Alex's match, the Crimson didn't let its last big home-sweet-home game of the season turn sour...