Word: flock
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More than Before. The movement for student involvement within the system has not been a total failure, however, and while there is no precise way of measuring its impact, there will be some. It will be felt unevenly, as students flock to prominent liberal candidates like Senator Charles Goodell and Representative Allard Lowenstein in New York and Senatorial Candidate Adlai Stevenson III in Illinois. Despite the drop in unrealistic enthusiasm, there seems little doubt that more students will be involved in party politics than ever before. At Cornell University, for instance, Government Professor Peter Sharfman says that without the recess...
...American approach to an American problem," said Dollard. "Traditionally, a person with a baptism record has the right of membership in a parish. I'm not impressed by that any more. People have got to pay to get into this outfit from now on." The reaction of the flock, which was probably more bothered by the coercion than by the $8 bite, was decisive if not generous. Church membership since the change has dropped from 850 families...
After 26 years as Boston's archbishop, ailing Richard Cardinal Cushing, 75, was helped up the steps of Holy Cross Cathedral for the two-hour ceremonial installation of his successor, Archbishop Humberto S. Medeiros. In what he called "a kind of farewell" to his flock of 1,900,000, the cardinal acknowledged that he had "never dreamed that God in his providence would allow me the privilege of presiding at the installation of my successor. I consider it a special sign of his goodness that he spared me to this...
Anyone who has sat in an airport watching mostly empty planes from competing lines take off for the same place at almost the same time may have wondered whether all those trips were necessary. Alone among nations, the U.S. allows a flock of its airlines to compete on routes that can barely pay off for one. Probably the worst case of overcompetition is the Los Angeles-Honolulu route, covered by eight lines...
Mike Koerner, one of the top hopes for the favored Crimson, was bothered by a recurring foot injury and fell back after the first mile before finally dropping out. Teammate Bob Seals, who was first at the mile, was passed by a flock of Quakers in the first set of hills. He never recovered...