Word: flock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that is the Roman Catholic Church functioning smoothly. But he must never forget what Paul did: to what the crowds of cheering children, eagerly waving their flags in the October rain, and to do what he could to keep that childlike innocence in the millions of souls in his flock...
...They flock to the festival in four-wheel-drive pickups, station wagons and huge recreational vehicles for a couple of days of shopping for items that range from electrified fences and worm medicine to a $200 "rocking sheep" covered in natural fleece. Wolfing down golf-ball-size chunks of fresh lamb barbecue (at $3.50 a plate), they watch as skilled artisans turn piles of fleece into yarn with Rumpelstiltskin-like skill. After hours spent looking over the thickset Dorsets and Suffolks, fine-haired Merinos, goatish Barbado black bellies and exotic Karakuls on display, people whose only past experience with sheep...
...Warn and his wife Pat. A 67-year-old retired Air Force officer, Warn moved from suburban New Jersey to northern New Hampshire a year ago, plunked down several hundred dollars to fence a one-acre pasture and started taking orders for next year's spring lambs. Their "flock" of two newly purchased Southdown Dorset crossbred ewes hasn't even been delivered yet. "First I want to learn to spin," explains Pat, a thin, exuberant woman clutching a sheaf of notes from the fleece-grading lecture. "Then I want to learn to weave. I've been...
...runty border collie with one white eye named Rob Roy. As a cluster of prospective customers watch, MacGregor launches Rob Roy at five skittish Cheviots standing at the far end of a corral 300 yds. long. Using skills his ancestors employed to cut weak animals out of the flock, Rob Roy takes off like a shot, slows to a crawl, inches up to the Cheviots and fixes their apparent leader with a mesmeric stare. As MacGregor yells directions ("way to me, way to me,") meaning circle to the right, Rob Roy nudges the flock of Cheviots our way. They have...
Sheep are cheap, too, at least compared with other large livestock. A good animal can be bought for $40. In summer they help keep mowing costs down. Regularly bred ewes add one or two lambs a year, which can be either sold for meat or used to increase the flock. The shepherd can expect to obtain about 10 Ibs. of fleece per sheep a year, which can either be spun or sold for an average price...