Word: flock
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hilarious paroxysm of physical prostration and rhetorical incantation involves Brother Jero's efforts to keep a member of his flock from beating his wife. If he permitted the man to do so, the prophet confides to the audience, the wife beater would be so inwardly satisfied that he might never return for more of Brother Jero's ministrations. The title role is played with unerring finesse by Harold Scott, who is sly, playful, sanctimonious or lecherous, as the occasion demands...
Startled by the noise, a flock of geese flapped across the cloudy sky, momentarily breaking their V-formation. Below, pulsating pressure waves beat against the faces and chests of reporters sitting in an open grandstand. In the launch-control center, as plaster dust from the ceiling fell around him and technicians wildly cheered, Wernher von Braun breathed, "Go, baby, go. " And in a portable CBS News studio, Commentator Walter Cronkite pressed his hands against a trembling plate-glass window and, in a voice distorted by excitement and vibration, shouted to a nationwide TV audience: "Oh, my God, our building...
...director, Jack Clayton, treats their excesses straightforwardly. No tricky angles or fancy pans. His cast--Dirk Bogarde and a flock of children--is impeccable. The only mistake is the music, which sounds like a grown-up reminiscing about a sweet sad thing. The harshness of silence would have been more appropriate...
...multilayered screening that creates excruciating delays; 56% of Stockholm-area legal abortions occur after the 16th week of pregnancy. Bureaucratic paper shuffling often holds up legal operations until the 24th week-producing live babies that sometimes cry for hours before dying. To avoid de facto infanticide, Swedish women flock to Poland for early, efficient $60 abortions. Appalled, the Swedish government has concluded that the law must be broadened to allow more and faster abortions...
...bagged 3,000,000 mourning doves in California last year, the birds now number 20 million, up 50% in 50 years. Even the wild turkey, wariest of all game birds-and therefore one of the first harmed by the shrinking wilderness-is making a comeback: Pennsylvania's turkey flock alone is estimated...