Word: flock
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shortly afterwards all the citizens of Zikliev were arraigned before a Soviet judge, on charges of murder, and defended by priest Kosheliev: "We have done no sin! Jesus, the Lord Himself, chastised sinners in the Temple with a knout. I encouraged my flock to follow His example...
...hurried to interview Dr. Kirk. In reply to their inquiries, he stated calmly that there were sown fields in Baltimore which he had "worked over and prayed over" whose harvests were "as yet unreaped." He had discovered after the call came that he wielded a greater influence over his flock than he had supposed; he could not sever his intimate ties without a loss, whereas he did not doubt that a pastorate of such importance as that of Fifth Ave. would surely obtain somewhere the minister it needed. Forthwith, the press both of Manhattan and of Baltimore published editorials lauding...
...annual race of handsome gobblers to the White House Thanksgiving dinner table, the first to arrive was a wild turkey which had voluntarily taken up a sedentary life with a tame flock in Pondera County, Mont. As a reward the County Turkey Growers' Association gave him a free ride to the White House, but on the trip he lost two of his 22 pounds from excitement...
With every seat in the Stadium taken for the first time this year, the Athletic Association and police officials of Boston and Cambridge have made extensive preparations to handle the crowds that will flock to the University-Dartmouth encounter tomorrow...
...suite at the Bellevue-Stratford, Philadelphia, sat John L. Lewis,head of the United Mine Workers. He well realized the implications of Governor Fuller's "lesson." A serious strike in the anthracite fields might ruin the anthracite business, permanently jeopardizing the fortunes of his flock. One way out of this dilemma would be to call a simultaneous strike of the bituminous fields (Pittsburgh territory). But that is out of the of the question because a derangement of the Union-bituminous fields would simply put money in the pockets of men in the non-Union fields of West Virginia...