Word: swarmming
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...about to muster his mob for an all-or-nothing attack on Duvalier. He and his brother Harry, 45, were hiding in a straw hut at the edge of a sugar-cane field, six miles north of Port-au-Prince. But this time someone tipped off Duvalier. A swarm of government goons surrounded the hut and set fire to the field. The Barbot brothers and three henchmen stumbled out through the smoke and flames-smack into a hail of bullets...
...shadow sweeps across North America to the populated parts of Canada and Maine, amateur observers will swarm to greet it. The path of totality will cut through Maine in a 60-mile swath where a deep twilight will fall. As seen from Boston, the sun will be 94.4% covered. In New York the crescent will look thicker: 88.7% covered; in St. Louis, 67.1%. In Los Angeles the sun will be dented (26.4% ); in Mexico City barely nicked...
Jack Nilon, front man for Heavyweight Champion Sonny Listen, pushed his way through the swarm of admirers. "I'm ready for Liston," Clay told him, "but only if the price is right. I'll draw the crowd-not him." Nilon nodded. "I've come 3,500 miles to get you," he said. "The price will be right...
There were two separate confrontations between Wallace and the federal officials. In midmorning, Katzenbach rode up in a border patrol car and strode purposefully to the doorway. There Wallace stood waiting. He had a lectern in front of him, a microphone draped from his neck and a swarm of state troopers near by. As Katzenbach reached the spot, Wallace snapped out a crisp command: "Stop...
They have started to swarm again-whistling down softly upon their familiar feeding grounds, buzzing into the air on their brightly colored wings, performing the ritual flights peculiar to the species, communicating in a mysterious language. In short, the fly-in season has begun, and it will be the biggest ever...