Word: flock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into a farmhouse about seven miles from the dusty little town of Pocahontas, Ark. Most conspicuous feature of the Hebner ménage was a large sign which said NO VISITORS WANTED. Pocahontas townsfolk took the hint until last winter, when both Hebners ceased to be seen and a flock of buzzards was observed wheeling over their establishment. Neighbors then found that the most conspicuous feature of the interior of the Hebner menage was a man's corpse lying in the storm cellar. The corpse-apparently several months old- was wearing a belt which looked like one that...
...York and Pennsylvania. Cold blast furnaces drove trade in the Pittsburgh region down 19%. In the furniture manufacturing area near Albany, citizens felt the dearth of new furniture buying and due to that and other causes trade fell 15%. Florida's dwindling tourist influx was offset by a flock of new paper mills to keep the decline to 18%. Birmingham coal and iron mines were less active. Cotton mills in Georgia and the Carolinas, which were working overtime year ago, were generally on part time. In Southern California the 13% slump was largely explained by dwindling cinema revenues. Rest...
...frankly, Dr. Conant. I'm sort of griped. My friend Mr. Littauer just gave you something pretty big, I'm told, and my aunt Mrs. Nieman also contributed in a small way. I've also done my part, I think, since I've supported a whole flock of scholarships. What I'm coming to is where does my son Pete come in? I naturally want him to go to Harvard and follow in my footsteps in the higher income brackets. Are you going to exclude him? I hope not, because he's really a peach. I remain, R. Van Revaler...
...desires to return. If this is true, and if the University refuses to accept him, it will be one more example of letting wheat slip through the chaff. Because some day in the future the world may spotlight this man and Harvard try to persuade him to join the flock; then one of its worst attitudes will simply be perpetuated...
...composers have ever approached Germany's great, white-haired Richard Strauss in making music onomatopoetic. In his tone poem Don Quixote, muted wind instruments reproduce with waxwork fidelity the distant bleating of a flock of sheep. In his opera Salome, while the heroine gloats, each chop of the knife that severs the head of John the Baptist clunks with horrifying realism from the orchestra pit.. Composer Strauss once boasted that he could put anything into musical terms, even a glass of water...