Word: flock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Taken completely unawares, the Press unleashed a flock of accounts varying even more wildly than their earlier speculations. The Brattvaag had bodies of all three explorers?Andree, Nils Strindberg & Knut Fraenkel?well preserved (Associated Press). The Brattvaag had the body of Andree, of another not identified, and the scattered bones of a third (New York Herald Tribune}. There were two skeletons, the bones of a third; Andree's head, in many fragments, had been found later (Universal Service). There were two bodies, Andree's and Fraenkel's. Andree "had been found in a sitting posture, reclining a little...
Crowds continued to flock to Tom Thumb Golf courses last week. City councils gravely debated whether it was a "real" sport and hence a violation of Sunday laws. A national open tournament on the original Chattanooga course was planned. And, more important, Garnet Carter sold his interests...
Granting, as both parties do, that many a Roman Catholic priest in Malta told his flock that to vote in a certain way would be a "mortal sin"* (for which absolution would be refused), does this constitute interference by the clergy in political affairs...
...rejoined the Vatican's White Book last week: The clergy never urged the people to deny their vote to Lord Strickland's or any other party, but the flock were warned not to vote for men whose attitude toward religion has been harmful in the past and may again be so in the future. Far from meddling in politics the Catholic Church was defending religion...
...English mechanic who I discovered, was a most brutal wife beater. A friend told me of it and I told the friend to have his wife tell Gillard that the next time he beat her, to come over here ["The Merry Mills," Cobham Va.] with her flock of children and I'd put her and them up at two farm houses on this place with my farmer and wife. He beat her shortly after. She and children fled here, while Gillard was out walking. He came home and followed her here. I always carry a 32 Smith and Wesson...