Word: flock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crisp morning in March 1968, Clarence McCarville was busy feeding a flock of turkeys on his northeastern Iowa farm. Suddenly, a Wisconsin Air National Guard F-102 jet fighter dropped like a buzz bomb from the sky and piled into the McCarville farmhouse, destroying it and several nearby sheds. Nine months later, by implausible coincidence, an F89 Iowa Air National Guard plane exploded when it plowed into the ground 100 ft. from Peter Tjernagel's farmhouse in the central part of the state. About 12,000 Ibs. of flaming jet fuel spewed from the plane and burned everything...
...thousands of years, shepherds have attached bells to the lead sheep to keep the flock from straying. In medieval times, lepers were required to wear bells and cry, "Unclean! Unclean!" as they roamed the streets. Now a Utah sociologist has suggested that the same primitive notion be applied to prison parolees...
Hence the myth of feminine sensibility. It is not so much an idea as a rendezvous for a flock of adjectives: sweet, refined, minor, sensitive, nuanced, emotional, lyrical, pastel, and so on. The opposite list would be the favorite lexicon of praise for most New York painting since 1950, the attributes of the macho masterpiece: harsh, brusque, major, obsessive, direct, intellectual, tragic, primary. The result of the stereotype is an ingrained reluctance to take women artists as seriously...
Back in December, with a new coach and a flock of freshman prospects, I was cautiously optimistic - to use a well-worn phrase - about the approaching season. Several swimmers from last year had already quit or were in the process of dropping off the team, and I knew little about the freshman except that highly-regarded new coach Don Gambril was counting on them to form the nucleus of his squad...
...another explanation for the new Muskie tactics is gaining currency: that the calm, soft-spoken advisors who have guided Muskie through 20 years of Maine politics are being phased out of the political side of the campaign by the tough, cigar-chomping con men who always flock to the Democratic frontrunner. This crowd of hustlers, so artfully described by Norman Mailer in his portrait of the Humphrey campaign in 1968, is increasingly in evidence around Muskie, 1972's premier candidate of the Establishment. It could be that the George Mitchell's and Dom Nicoll's who so expertly aided Muskie...