Word: swarmming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When a busload of marchers from Atlanta arrived on Jan. 17, they encountered a swarm of about 300 opponents, some in Klansmen's sheets, some in military fatigues, who greeted them with rocks, bottles, clots of mud and chants of "Go home, niggers!" Four of the 90-odd marchers were injured, and eight attackers were arrested before the march broke off. "It is amazing," said Atlanta City Councilman Hosea Williams, who was hit twice by flying stones, "that this kind of racial violence can happen in this country...
Coudari and Sontag appeared shaken when a swarm of photographers and television crews stampeded into a chandeliered room in the Foreign Ministry during the ceremonies in which they were turned over to French diplomats. The crush sent security men scurrying to save valuable vases...
...carried the ball only rarely for the Broncos, when Little was hurt, and even then he was just a workmanlike runner. Most of his years were spent on the Broncos' special teams, where he, along with ten other players, would charge, kamikaze-like, down the field to swarm over an opposing ballcarrier...
These stalwarts are as diverse as they are different from the college students who swarm around the counter from 12 to 3 a.m. and the laborers who casually sip coffee on swivel stools...
Other grievances swarm up from the past. Phillip recalls how his father prevented both daughters from marrying, scaring off suitors or using courtroom wiles to turn the impressionable girls into witnesses against their gentlemen friends. The third child, Georgie, was ostensibly so traumatized by family life that he volunteered for service in World War II with the sole intent of being killed, at which he succeeded. The old man also managed to put an end to Phillip's courtship of a "girl I was in love with in Chattanooga (and there has never been another)." As these remembrances and confessions...