Word: swarmming
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Moments later, hurrying down the dusty street, she was followed by a swarm of flies and by a clatter of little girls who pleaded: "Juste cinq francs, madame!" Lady Bird bravely tried to show admiration for Kayar's tiny, windowless, wooden shacks and the village sewing machine, but as she confessed later: "What bothered me most was the fact that I knew we were leaving soon, but these people would have to go on living with these flies and in this poverty...
Communism's busiest base in Southeast Asia these days is Hanoi, capital of North Viet Nam. Its streets swarm with Russians and Red Chinese. Laos is much on their minds. Sixty Russian pilots and flight engineers are billeted at the Union Hotel, and the persistent sound in the air is the drone of Ilyushins winging off with supplies for the pro-Communist rebels in Laos. But Hanoi's rulers have an even more important project in mind after Laos. At party dinners, where the cutlery comes from East Germany, the glasses from Czechoslovakia and the brandy from Bulgaria...
...households selected by the nuns for Catholic respectability rather than the real virtue of charity. In telling the life of this simple, devout soul, her son avoids the curse of self-pity that afflicted even such masterly performers as Samuel Butler, Rousseau and Stendhal, not to speak of a swarm of modern confessionists. After writing his mother's life-partly, of course, as she told it to him-O'Connor has no pity left to spend on himself. "The gutter where life had thrown her was deep and dirty," he notes. But, like her son, Mother...
...deciphered part of their choreographic language, reported that scout bees use different dance steps to tell a swarm of workers the location of a nectar trove and the richness of the find...
...Flight 548 had something special that infected even the travel-weary and the blasé. Bubbly, chattery, their eyes dancing with excitement, came a swarm of 18 young members of the U.S. figure-skating team, headed with their coaches for the world championship competitions at Prague. Fresh-faced and eager, they were 'the cream of America's talented skating stars, experts in a sport that requires hard selfdiscipline, dedication and diligence. In the group were the brother-and-sister teams of Laurie and William Hickox and Ila and Ray Hadley, the married team of Patricia and Robert Dineen...