Word: swarmming
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...These battles might rage all day, into the winter dusk. Toward the end of one day's fight, "rumor said a swarm of blackguards from the slums, led by a ghastly terror called Conky Daniels, with a club and a hideous reputation, was going to put an end to the Beacon Street cowards forever. Henry wanted to run away with the others, but his brother was too big to run away, so they stood still and waited immolation...
...demanding as this swarm of unofficial chores is in McComb, it is far tougher in districts where one nurse is responsible for up to several thousand students, sometimes spread throughout as many as 10 buildings. That kind of work load is typical in Illinois, where the state school-nursing association lobbied unsuccessfully for tobacco-settlement money to go toward hiring nurses. In such cases schools rely on lunchroom supervisors and secretarial staff for basic first aid and call 911 for anything more complicated, says Phyllis Pelt, director of the school-nurse certification program at the University of Illinois at Chicago...
...resiliency of the Huskies really had emerged midway through the second period when it sliced a 6-3 deficit to 6-5 on goals by Jim Fahey and Brian Cummings--after already killing off a five minute major penalty. After that point, Northeastern really began to swarm Jonas, who after a magnificent first half of the season has looked shaky the past week...
Standing in the center of a swarm of reporters after the projected loss of the three critical states, Texas Lt. Gov. Rick Perry provided prophetic words for the night...
...announcement has already sparked a swarm of criticism...