Word: flock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...species. His theory held that every organism fights for its own survival and chance to reproduce, not that of others. Since altruistic behavior reduces an organism's chances to survive, evolution should be expected to breed it out of all species. Still, some birds risk their lives for the flock by crying out to warn of the presence of a predator?thus chancing attracting the attention of the enemy and being singled out for attack. Dolphins sometimes try to save injured dolphins from drowning. Social insects serve the entire community, some going so far as to give their lives...
...published poems in the Atlantic -mostly free verse, of which Frost disapproved. Sample lines: "You too amaze me, houses of Brooklyn./ All day you are meek, you cup/ unhappiness like water/ when all you want is to be nothing but windows/ to take off into the sky like a flock of birds...
...difficult to tell how many Catholics would follow Lefebvre into schism. His hard-core base may be only a few thousand people, but there are large numbers of Roman Catholics upset by the innovations since Vatican II. Some Vatican sources think Lefebvre might have a potential flock of 50,000 or 60,000, centered in France, Germany and England. That could produce the biggest rupture since the Old Catholics broke with Rome over the First Vatican Council's decree on the authority and infallibility of the Pope...
...plan, which will place all freshmen Yard, move all upperclassmen out of Canaday Hall, and so end four-year Houses at the Quad next year, was one of a flock of proposals that had been floating around for years. Other proposals included plans to convert the Yard into Houses to establish uniform four-year housing, and to house all freshman in the Quad and all sophomores in the Yard (or the reverse...
...Hopes. Homework aside, Carter ran the risk of irritating his fellow heads of state when he granted interviews to a flock of European publications-all to be released just before he arrives in London. Earlier he had informed Prime Minister Callaghan that he would like to make an excursion to Poet Dylan Thomas' birthplace in Wales. The request was made without considering the fact that Britain is trying to moderate Welsh nationalist demands. Callaghan suggested a visit instead to the ancestral home of George Washington near the coal town of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The Prime Minister felt that taking...