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Word: flock (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...makeshift filing center--and telex machines. Long-distance and local phones, lots of them, with quadralingual dialing instructions posted strategically. People are chatting in English, Italian, German and Latin. The guy at the front of the room, is telling everybody that "the shepherd has come to see his flock." But he's got it all wrong; the wolves have come to see the shepherd...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Chasing After the Shepherd | 10/2/1979 | See Source »

...oarsmen, especially those who live in the Boston area, that is all they need to know before they flock to Newell Boathouse...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boathouse Attracts Olympic Hopefuls | 9/26/1979 | See Source »

...character witness at 1970 Army hearings that cleared the captain. But the Kassabs quickly developed doubts and began what the husband openly called a "legal vendetta," importuning federal authorities to reopen the case. MacDonald was finally indicted in early 1975, but the trial was further delayed by a flock of appeals, including three to the Supreme Court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Family Vendetta | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

After the flock vanished, the press identified Bo as Marshall Herff Applewhite, a former music teacher at the University of St. Thomas, a Roman Catholic school in Houston, and choirmaster of an Episcopal church. Peep was formerly a Houston nurse named Bonnie Lu Nettles. In 1976 two University of Montana sociologists, Robert Balch and David Taylor, located the nomads' wilderness camp and found it noncoercive but sometimes troubled by doubts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Flying Saucery in the Wilderness | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

...program that would appeal strongly to women but would discourage gay customers. She has succeeded: the current stage show appears to strike the right sensual chords for women of all ages but attracts few male patrons. The revue also hits the right cash register keys: 150 to 200 customers flock to each performance. The audiences seem a notably wholesome and ordinary cross section of women. Entire tables are booked for "bachelorette" and birthday parties, and one large group celebrated a just-obtained divorce of one of its members there. A throng of female bus drivers from Chicago convened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: And Now, Bring on the Boys | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

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