Word: flock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aren't any other allusions to graceless forms on the page, so upi might as well supply the rest yourself. For example, a lot of the woman's poems are some of those things you should shun. They're too easy to swallow, and this has enticed a whole flock of followers who chuck stanzas between their gums without noticing that their form is bad--consuming mediocre poetry is bad form...
...what's killing us." Gentility. GM, Lord & Taylor, Philco "new color" TV...but isn't that what she meant when she admonished you for worshipping weakness? Maybe these days she really is aiming for a genteel brand of obscenity. It's hard to guess why she should. Apparently her flock wants it that way. Better leave the cussing out altogether--tacit apologies make it so utterly superfluous...
...Tuesday, McCurdy had suggested that he might use some Irish terrorists to help combat the Irish-laden Friars. By last night, he was wishing that he had. "We needed a whole flock of them," McCurdy said. "As a matter of fact, though, yesterday it felt like we were right in the middle of a rebellion...
With good reason, many primitive peoples regarded the terrible quakes they could not understand as the acts of a vengeful deity. As late as 1750, Thomas Sherlock, the Bishop of London, told his flock that two recent earthquakes were warnings that Londoners should atone for their sins. John Wesley agreed. In a 1777 letter to a friend, he wrote...
...front page of the East Hampton Summer Sun and five sister weeklies published for the well-heeled vacationers who flock to the east end of Long Island was given over in its entirety recently to a letter from the police chief of nearby Bridgehampton. The lawman asked that residents contribute raw meat to local authorities to help feed a killer shark roaming the area's beaches so that its consumption of swimmers could be cut back from...