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Okay for Now, by Schmidt
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Mr. McElroy in world history, who announced that we were going to start by studying the barbarian hordes of western Russia, and then looked at me.†
p. 99.1 *

hordes = large numbers
Mr. McElroy had been showing us filmstrips about the barbar ian hordes of Russia with records that gave little pings to let him know when he was supposed to advance the strip.†
p. 111.1
You can't believe how many filmstrips there are about the barbarian hordes of Russia.†
p. 111.1
So on the first Saturday of October, after a week when Mr. McElroy had had enough of the Russian hordes and had probably run out of pinging filmstrips anyway and so we were now headed across the Great Wall into China, and a week when Mrs. Verne finally did call on me when I had my hand up and when I answered right —not to brag—that it was negative x and not negative y, and a week when I had snuck over to the Shirts team again and Coach Reed couldn't figure out why his platoon system wasn't working and how someone was pulling some funny business on him, I went over to the Marysville Free Public Library after my deliveries, ready to tell Mr. Powell that I had figured out how to give the impres†
p. 113.6
One fight in Mr. McElroy's class with barbarian hordes.†
p. 149.5

Definitions:

(1) (horde)
a very large number -- typically of people, animals, or insects on the move
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)