Word: flock
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kicking the Tradition. Under the paternalistic rule of le Pere, as his countrymen call him, youngsters everywhere now flock to new secular schools that have replaced the dreary old Koranic institutions. Young Tunisian women wear mini-djebbas that are the scandal of the mullahs, and bikinis among the scantiest on the Mediterranean. But Bourguiba is kicking more than tradition into the North African dust...
...Labor Day weekend, when Republic Steel dropped word of new prices in steel bars, did the Administration react. Ackley condemned the move, professing a belated astonishment at the fact that higher prices have already been chalked up "for nearly half the steel tonnage produced in this country," and a flock of telegrams urged other producers not to follow Republic...
...Psychiatrists Schaefer and Hatterer are slightly off in their explanation of why the cult of Judy Garland [Aug. 18] has so many homosexual members. It is not that they "gravitate toward superstars" or else they would surely flock to the Beatles' concerts; and it is certainly not that Judy Garland has "become masculine and powerful." The answer is simply that they identify with Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, poor little unattractive, unwanted Dorothy who eventually had all her dreams come true in the magical Emerald City. You will notice that the majority of Garland fans in her audiences...
...field, they enjoyed it when the odds were at least 20 to 1-against them. Espionage, reconnaissance, subversion, psychological warfare-they knew and practiced all these supposedly modern martial stratagems. To "psych" his adversaries before the siege of Palermo, the Norman commander, Roger de Hauteville, released a flock of captured carrier pigeons-after tying to their legs scraps of cloth soaked in Saracen blood...
...billion chunk of it tied up in machinery so costly that, as Federal Reserve Bank Agricultural Economist Roby Sloan notes, "those without the managerial capacities, or who couldn't get financing, have had to move off the farm." As more marginal, hardscrabble farmers give up and flock to the cities, the spreads that remain are getting bigger. The average farm, just 175 acres back in 1940, now covers 359 acres, and will probably grow to 600 acres by 1980. To make a profit, says Ken Bush, 34, a Milan, 111., farmer with $80,000 worth of gear, "you have...