Word: teeming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...regularly, including 30 of the 85 players in the world who are ranked as international grandmasters, the equivalent of karate's black belt. Every town from Khabaroush to Kiev has a chess club. Taxi drivers vent their pent-up hostilities across the boards during lunch breaks. City parks teem with chess hustlers. Soviet children, who learn the game in Young Pioneer youth groups, argue Sicilian defenses and queen's gambits with the same passion that American kids show when they talk about double plays and quarterback sneaks. Professionals of the caliber of Petrosian and Spassky, both of whom...
...Monsignor Joseph A. McCaffrey, it often seemed as if the devil himself had been the architect of his parish. At night, the streets teem with vagrants, homosexuals and brazen hookers. Bookstores flaunt their pornographic wares, and nudie movie houses flicker a mix of erotica and violence almost until dawn. As pastor of New York's Holy Cross Roman Catholic Church on 42nd Street, only two blocks off Broadway, McCaffrey spent 36 years crusading against the seamy side of the Great White Way. Acting like a one-man Legion of Decency, he won the newspaper title "Bishop of Times Square...
...often rightly so. Cocteau was a master of the bon mot and the telling aphorism, and these pages teem with samples. Perhaps the best is the anecdotal quip that American Composer Ned Rorem relates in his introduction. A literary monthly once posed a question to several writers: "If your house were burning down and you could take one thing, what would it be?" "I'd take the fire," answered Jean Cocteau...
...mile, dominated by Harvard. The Married Student Dormitories, rising high above the small wooden homes that the behind them, begin the University's riverfront real estate. Eliot house marks the end. The character of the area has changed almost completely. The Houses and the Married student Dormitories teem with life, a few of their in-habitants vote, and broadly any really belong to Cambridge. To most, the city is a home for a few years and no more...
Appleby and Brian Davis will be playing in the first match against Jennings and Rawis. The Crimson duo is potentially a fine teem with plenty of offensive elan. They won the second doubles match at Princeton last year. In Jennings, however, they will be meeting great doubles player...