Word: swarmming
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...While a swarm of Vampire jet fighters in formation screamed overhead and a 21-gun salute boomed in welcome from the ramparts of Edinburgh Castle, Queen Elizabeth arrived in Scotland's capital for her first visit since her accession. After inspecting Edinburgh's Royal Company of Archers, she was presented by its captain, the Duke of Buccleuch, with the company's emblem, done up as a brooch of three golden arrows with a diamond thistle. Unable to accompany the royal entourage; the Duke of Edinburgh, laid low in Buckingham Palace by an attack of jaundice...
...bird world. The closest bird watchers in Britain are the learned Misses Miriam Rothschild and Teresa Clay, who comb the feathers of birds, probe their body openings, search through their nests with microscopes. They are looking for the lice, fleas, ticks, mites, flies, worms and other parasites which swarm over all birds. After many years of study, the Misses Rothschild and Clay have published a lively book, Fleas, Flukes and Cuckoos (Collins, London; 21 s.), packed with detailed information about the fascinating parasites that plague birds...
Along with lice and fleas, many other kinds of parasites swarm through the bird world. Ticks suck the blood of their hosts; mites live inside their feathers or even inside the bodies of their fleas...
...last time that billy clubs whistled through the air too often and too accurately--in 1927 after the University Theater released its swarm of students into a Cambridge mob that had gathered already--President Lowell responded by demanding the suspension of four officers. There may be no need for such a drastic rejoinder as that, but at least the University should make a clear protest and demand that relations with Cambridge be free of any more such occurences...
...moist heat of East Africa the locusts bred and multiplied. Then, sudden as an explosion, vast swarms rose up to darken the sky. A single swarm may occupy 250 sq. mi. of space, contain perhaps 500 million locusts, and weigh 700 tons. At least 30 swarms headed northward...