Word: swarmming
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...cruising in his father's 52-ft. yacht The Marlin (built in 1930 for Edsel Ford), browsing through Anthony Trollope's novel The American Senator, swimming, napping, and playing in the backyard with Daughter Caroline, 2½. Then the special switch board began to flash like a swarm of fire flies, his appointment book began to fill up ominously, and Jack Kennedy found himself in the midst of a presidential campaign and more...
Though intramural competition is intense, the clan swarm like bees around a queen when one member makes a louder hum than the others. Thus, when Teddy was a brawny end at Harvard, every Kennedy became an expert football coach and traveled in T-formation to Cambridge on autumn Saturdays to watch him play. In Bobby's heyday as the grand inquisitor of the Senate McClellan committee, when he was making Jimmy Hoffa squirm, the clan became totally absorbed in the investigation, discussed it over every dinner table and every long-distance telephone call and beat a path...
...clan moved into the embassy residence on Prince's Gate and immersed themselves in international problems. Summer vacations were spent exploring Europe. Joe Jr. toured the Franco front in Spain; Jack visited Moscow and Berlin on the eve of World War II. Some times the entire tribe would swarm over to Paris for a weekend with Ambassador William Bullitt ("People didn't seem to mind," explains Rose, "and we didn't care where we slept...
...pile, had probably already climbed and descended the highest minaret. "Then I figured he would try the second-highest minaret," recalls Clyde. "But I couldn't find anything there, not even footprints. Then I heard a buzzing sound above me and looked up, and there was a swarm of blueflies. The body was up there on a ledge...
...independence before a gigantic Polish-American picnic in Chicago. He hopped back to Washington to preside over the Senate. Then he was off to work his way through the vast U.S. World Trade Fair in Manhattan's Coliseum, where he could hardly see the exhibits for the swarm of reporters and photographers that buzzed around...