Word: swarmming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Deep in Brazil's Amazon jungle, thousands of dust-covered laborers swarm over a mountain of red earth, using their pickaxes and shovels to carve its surface into a bizarre landscape. It is a scene that could belong to an outlandish biblical epic movie or a sinister labor camp. It is neither. Serra Pelada (Bald Mountain), 270 miles south of the mouth of the Amazon River, is the site of one of the biggest gold rushes in modern Brazilian history. It is also an experiment by Brazil's debt-ridden government to harness the skills of the country...
...Dana? "Rosanne won't be covering the convention this year, perhaps in '84," said Gilda Radner at a fund raiser for Manhattan Democratic Congressional Candidate Mark Green. As soon as she popped out of the elevator atop the Empire State Building, she was set upon by a swarm of would-be Woodsteins under age 14 reporting for Children's Express. Well, as Rosanne might have known, it's always something...
...tractors clank down the 200-yd.-long assembly line like gigantic metal insects: 7,500 tractors a month, 90,000 a year, all bearing the trademark Belarus MTZ. Brigades of young laborers clad in work clothes or jeans swarm over each monster, slipping front axles and gear boxes into place, bolting on metal casings, attaching three or four giant wheels...
Closer to the mountain, the eruption blasted twelve miles of the once pristine north fork of the Toutle River into a lifeless moonscape. Herds of black-tailed deer, bobcats and cougars used to swarm through the valley's hemlock and Douglas fir; elk still wandered in hopeless confusion through the ashen desolation. The river and its source, Spirit Lake, once teemed with steelhead trout and Chinook salmon. All were destroyed by the eruption. TIME Correspondent Paul Witteman was one of the first journalists to see the area by helicopter after the blast. His report...
...identified the exact suite McGovern's going to be using during the convention, and we've got a little surprise cooked up for him. Just as the press arrives for one of his interviews, we're gonna have a bunch of really filthy zonked-out hippies swarm in there, all wearing McGovern buttons and carrying