Word: swarmming
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...screens at each end to protect spectators from flying pucks, sticks, and occasional severed limbs. But at two o'clock sharp, the tranqull ice is transformed into what resembles a subway rush in the 7th Avenue subway when a hundred or so shabbily dressed people with razor-like skates swarm over the boards-the Rainbow Division going over the top at Hill 22. After a general 15-minute melee, called "warm-up time", a whistle is blown and the first game is about to begin. For purposes of illustration, let us say, between Winthrop and Lowell...
Hopkins admitted that the public is quick to suspect tyranny in an administrative service that becomes too powerful. "The word 'bureaucracy' makes many people think of a swarm of undisciplined office-holders descending on our liberties," he said...
...rely on his imagination. He painted a troop of satyrs and demi-mortals congregating in a meadow around a hollow tree, a young bibulous Bacchus, a grinning Silenus straddling a donkey. Most of the company were engaged in making a racket on tin pans, to coax a swarm of bees into a cluster. Title: The Discovery of Honey...
...whether Lightnin' would date, knowing that it already dated when first written. For old as folk drama is the tale of warm-hearted Lightnin' Bill Jones, who loafs as chronically as Rip van Winkle, lies as outrageously as Tartarin of Tarascon. Typical whopper: how he drove a swarm of bees across a prairie in the dead of winter without losing...
...Author Norris' eyes seem cool-sighted. His calm view comes partly of his studied concern always to see both sides of Problems: partly, it may be due to the fact that the Norrises have brought up several nephews and nieces, kept open house for a dozen others who swarm uninhibited over the Norris ranch at the foot of the Santa Cruz mountains...