Word: swarmming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...make sure that all means -- river, rail and air transport -- are made available so that aid reaches the needy." Yet as long as both sides continued their military operations, relief efforts seemed certain to remain suspended. In the meantime, roving gangs of bandits, armed tribesmen and Ugandan army deserters swarm through the rebel-held area...
...There was even a deadline of sorts. The 22 conferees began their meetings in July under an agreement that they would try to finish by Aug. 15. They were afraid that if they did not have a deal by then, the whole bill would be picked apart by a swarm of lobbyists who would descend on Senators and Representatives back home during the three-week recess...
...becomes an Eden. As the years slide by, the places we have visited are steadily pushed back to an enchanted distance, and memory, the mind's great cosmetician, begins to remove wrinkles, soften edges, touch up the past in a golden glow. The 26-hour bus trip, the simultaneous swarm of hucksters and mosquitoes, the revolutions of the stomach are all forgotten or, better yet, transfigured into the unforgettable adventures with which we can impress our friends. Paradise's loss is our gain. Small wonder that Proust, great poet laureate of reminiscence, wrote, "Les vrais paradis sont les paradis...
...loathesome qualities of Harvard people are so well-known that it is almost passe to mention them. Much more interesting are the myriad drunks, psychopaths, amateur astrologers, zombies, self-proclaimed demigods, Sleestaks, princes-in-exile, Shi'ite Mormons, invisible people, levitators, Klingon spies, werewolves, and assorted cultists who swarm the place...
Nietlich's kick was blocked by a swarm of Kirkland defenders and the ball rolled into the Adams endzone, where one of the Flames tried to pull a Rob Steinberg imitation. But instead of knocking it out the back of the end zone, he batted the ball forward, and it rolled out of bounds...