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Word: swarmming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gravy-Sucking Bulldogs," read the crimson banner above the Union mantlepiece. "Impale Yale" proclaimed hundreds of crimson baseball caps. "Lock Yale in the Stocks" declared thousands of crimson placards. And as a swarm of crimson balloons soared to the ceiling of the Freshman Union at yesterday's Yale game pep rally, one word characterized the scene, and it was not "blue...

Author: By Michael W. Miller and Sarah Paul, S | Title: Balloons, Bananas, Cheerleaders, Fight-Songs Fill Freshman Union at Yale-Game Pep Rally | 11/21/1980 | See Source »

Early in the second quarter Eliot came back with a drive of its own. The big gainers were a Mike Eliot reverse that went for eight yards and a burst off right tackle by fullback Mark Adley that gained another 20. Randy Yanker then followed a swarm of blockers around left end for 26 yards and the tally...

Author: By Howard N. Mead, | Title: Eliot Sneaks by Kirkland in Overtime | 11/13/1980 | See Source »

THROUGHOUT the opening of The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith director Fred Schepisi continually dissects static tableaus. The camera suddenly cuts from the scene at hand to a minute corner of the picture: In the lapse of conversation suddenly one is looking at a swarm of termites on a windowsill. A domestic portrait gives way to an extreme closeup of a rusty knife cutting through bread--the sound suddenly amplified and grating. Idyllic farm panoramas are interrupted with scenes of chicken roosters being slaughtered, huge shears go through sheep's wool, the camera slowly absents itself from a sermon and creeps...

Author: By Thomas Hines, | Title: A Gradual Terror | 10/16/1980 | See Source »

...partisans, however, it appeared that the referee had stopped the fight on his own, and that he had done so unfairly. While Hagler celebrated his victory by dropping to his knees a la Bjorn Borg, the spectators took a different view, and showered the ring with beer bottles. A swarm of Bobbies surrounded Hagler and ushered him to safety...

Author: By Nevin I. Shalit, | Title: Marvelous Marvin Hagler Makes Good | 9/29/1980 | See Source »

...someone with the demeanor of an itinerant bum, the slouchy ambience of some Kerouac nomad, Waits has immersed himself in a demanding swarm of projects, committing his time and talents to a busy horde of movers and shakers. Apart from his current fall/winter tour and the Heart Attack and Vine LP (to be recorded with producer Bones Howe in early January), several motion picture forays are under way. One is a script co-written with writer/actor Paul Hampton called Why Is the Dream So Much Sweeter Than the Taste? "It's about a used car dealer in Southern California...

Author: By Stephen X. Rea, | Title: The Tom Waits Cross-Country Marathon Interview | 9/18/1980 | See Source »

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