Word: teem
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dish our eviction notices to families as easily as it can issue room assignment to freshmen. And the protest is little more than an aging cover of life Magazine. But in no context does all this activity and publicity over a few homes near the Medical School teem more of a relic of the 60s then when contrasted with what is happening there...
Chess Games. The streets and taverns of 17th century Paris here teem with vignettes of squalor (two men playing a seesaw game over a fire for a prize of food) that make their own comment set against the distant pomp of the royal court. The musketeers move through both these worlds with equal ease, yet are part of neither. Their sworn allegiance is to the King, Louis XIII, and against Richelieu, but they are men of pride. Their greatest battle and concern are simply to stay alive. For though they would call themselves their own men, they belong to Louis...
...Harvard-Yale teem seems assured of wins only in three events, and one of those, the pole vault, will have no English entrants. Nevertheless, Harvard's Jim Kleiger should be the center of attention as he makes one last assault this Spring to clear 17 feet. He has already soared 16 ft. 8 in. this year and has re-written the Harvard record book...
...wood carvings, sisal mats, dolls and hundreds of other products displayed in crowded stalls. There is the formal city hall, outlined at night with strings of glowing light bulbs, and the National Palace, which is guarded during holidays by light antiaircraft guns. Everywhere the streets in the overcrowded city teem with people, many of them politely but persistently hawking goods or guide services to any tourist in sight. Port-au-Prince also has more than its share of slums, which bear elegant names like Bel Air, Poste Marchand and Leclerc but often have open sewage ditches running through them...
...coast of St. Croix, where the Caribbean slopes off very steeply, they are siphoning up nutrient-rich, cold (41° F.) sea water from a depth of half a mile and feeding it into small pools, each with a capacity of 16,000 gallons. Within ten days the pools teem with phytoplankton and become ideal breeding grounds for aquatic life. Last week the Columbia scientists "set" their first batch of young Chesapeake Bay and Long Island oysters in the ponds, where they should thrive on the bountiful food supply. Eventually the scientists hope to raise snails, shrimps and anchovies...