Word: swarmming
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...meat strike died hard. In Waterloo, Iowa, one hot afternoon last week, a 55-year-old Negro, who had gone back to work at the Rath Packing Co. after losing $375 in wages, fired his pistol when a swarm of strikers tried to tip over his tattered Model A Ford. A picket was killed; a woman striker was wounded. The strikers took out their fury on workers' autos. A parking lot fence was ripped down, 27 cars were overturned. Frightened workers stayed in the plant that night, went out next day under protection of Iowa's National Guard...
...long now until the mistreated earth will be unable to feed the ever-multiplying billions of people who swarm over it. This is the considered warning of Fairfield Osborn, president of the New York Zoological Society, in a recently published book, Our Plundered Planet (Little, Brown...
...being murdered. There is the killer, but the watcher knows neither his identity nor his motive. The body is found and the news buzzes through to Homicide. During the balance of the show, the audience follows a veteran detective (Barry Fitzgerald), his young helper (Don Taylor) and a swarm of assistants, from laboratory experts to pavement pounders, at the long hard job of smelling out suspects and closing in on the criminal. It is a remarkably thorough, fresh and engrossing exposition of big-city criminological methods...
...crowds and slums of the frightening city, Father Kumalo finds out what has happened to his people, whom the used-up land no longer supports and who swarm to the mines and compounds, homeless and without families. His sister has become a prostitute, his son a thief. There are few kafferboeties, or white men who work for the welfare of the blacks. One of them is killed by a housebreaker, and to his terrible sorrow the old man learns that his son Absalom was the killer. . This situation allows the novelist to dramatize with irony a complex of interracial tensions...
...comet's head (probably a collection of small, meteorlike objects traveling together like a swarm of bees) had separated into three parts. Its tail (gases driven away from the head by pressure of the sun's light) had dissipated. Only astronomers with powerful telescopes could follow the departing visitor as it moved across the sky toward Capricorn...