Word: flock
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...costume and fired guns in the air, which bothered the birds not at all but drove Jane off to a hospital with a fever and acute nausea. After three days of rest Jane returned to work, finally finished the scene with the aid of even larger fans and a flock of peckish lovebirds. It would all come out onscreen, said Roger, as a "whimsical, lyrical outlook toward sex in the year...
Thousands of government workers were given the day off for the funeral, but they preferred to flock to the beaches. The solemn salute of gunfire every ten minutes from Rio's forts went largely unnoticed. Thus, followed to the very end by the unpopularity that had been his lot in three years as an honest but uncharismatic President of Brazil, Humberto Castello Branco last week went to his grave at the age of 66, victim of a plane crash in the fifth month of his retirement. Said former Planning Minister Roberto Campos in a eulogy: "He had an aversion...
Rubberneckers are now as much a part of The Hashbury scene as are hippies. At the Drogstore, where a bowl of minestrone or a hamburger costs 75?, goggle-eyed straights in suit and tie sniff the air for the musky-sweet scent of marijuana; others flock to such hippie shops as the Print Mint and the Phoenix to buy pornographic or psychedelic posters...
...only 40 years ago that Charles A. Lindbergh did it, but now an average of nearly 24,000 people fly the Atlantic - every day. Most of them are eating their way across on the 707s and DC-8s, but down below there is a growing little flock of private adventurers who get their vacation kicks by playing Lindy - crossing the sea in a small plane with little but an extra load of gas and faith in their own skill. Last year about 300 private planes made the trip, and already in the first five months of this year, more than...
This is not to say that if Vietnam Summer proves to be a rather ineffectual venture, droves of undergraduates will flock to enlist in the "We Won't Go" movement. But they will be faced with what is certain to be a political identity crisis that could serve to spur on the recent radicalization of Harvard