Word: swarmming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Greek landscape is not always so peaceable. Later in the novel, when the boys approach water, they are set upon by a cloud of stinging insects. Panagis reports: the main body of the swarm moved to block our way, and the air became so thick that the last rays of the sun could not penetrate it. It was as though the air had taken a visible body and was eager to show its pulse and its muscle, its twisting limbs at each point of severance, and its furious powers of regeneration....as its body blocked our view...
...pretense to democratic rule must absolutely be done away with. We suggest they sink University Hall, creating an underground interrogation center, concealed by a pile of corpses where the building once stood. Dean Epps could really be let loose in the underground as the Queen Bee of a swarm of the little stingers, directing them in defecation flights and pelting recalcitrant students with "yellow rain" until they confess their guilt in "political crimes" against U.S. imperialism...
Before the Finnish border, the train jolted to a stop. I stood up, looked out the window and saw a swarm of uniformed custom officers surrounded and climb onto the train. This had happened upon entrance into Russia but still the experience remains numbing...
...their places are a swarm of talented--yet young, inexperienced and untested--lax women, eager to carry on the newly found tradition...
...fighting in the area around Basra, insisted that there were no such weapons within his command. He pointed out that poison gas would be extremely difficult to use in a close-combat situation. But he added, "If you gave me some insecticide that I could squirt at this swarm of mosquitoes, I would use it so that they would be exterminated, thus benefiting humanity by saving the world from these pests...