Word: flock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Administrators and colleagues pose problems for blacks, but minority students also seem to flock to the black administrator. Walter Leonard sums up the issue when he says, "Black students expect us to be one or more or all of these things: friends, guidance counselors, academic advisers, job references, mentors, spokesmen, companions, clergymen, clerks, as well as boosters in times of trouble, and congratulators in times of success...
When Richard Lamm came to live in Colorado in 1961, he spotted a flock of geese a few feet inside the state border. He stopped his car, stepped out, drank in the unspoiled scenery and told himself, "This is the place." Ever since, he has tried to keep Colorado the way he found it-a battle for the environment that spurred his political rise and carried him into this year's gubernatorial race. In a victory that showed a majority of Coloradans share his concern, he defeated the popular incumbent, John Vanderhoof, by 441,144 votes...
...could make up for some lost business by building more buses and other forms of mass transit. If people stayed at home more, there would be a surge in many types of goods, from TV sets to parlor games; although people might avoid long-distance trips, they might well flock to closer resorts and motels. If people drove less, it would be logical to give gasoline a lower weighting in the CPI, thus reducing the impact of a gas tax on wage escalations...
...former President's defenders, and his lesser-known colleague, Gary Paul Gates, make a brisk and balanced case for their assertion. Nixon, they write, had an obsessive fear of a political threat from the liberal Ted Kennedy. The President attempted to blunt this threat with his own flock of political moderates: Arthur Burns and Pat Moynihan in the White House, former Governors George Romney, Wally Hickel and John Volpe, as well as Robert Finch, in the Cabinet. But Kennedy's accident in July 1969 eliminated Nixon's need to keep moderates around. Chappaquiddick, the authors contend, opened...
...must endeavor, with God's help, not to give in. If faith cannot "work" even for us, how could the sermons our husbands preach from the Holy Scriptures be of any hope to our flock...