Word: flock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Saturday afternoon marks the first anniversary of the Great Slowdown, but this time, even a mass abduction of local youngsters may not help Penn. The Quakers are presently residing in last place in both the Ivy League and ECAC, and a flock of injuries and defections has reduced the Red and Blue to a shadow of what it was in December, and it wasn't much then...
While Agnew was studiously decorous wherever he traveled, the attending flock of Secret Service men drew some negative reviews. To the Australians, the sight of the Secret Service running alongside Agnew's car through the quiet streets of Canberra looked undignified, even panicky. "These athletic, shorthaired, earnest and heavily armed young men," said the Canberra Times, "appeared to be possessed by inner furies unknown to the peaceful southern tablelands." As expected, the usual demonstrators were on hand. One threw himself in front of the Vice President's limousine and others burned the U.S. flag, but they were easily...
...this Capacity, the Mentor, now leading another Flock across the Fields to the Stable of Farmer Diskord, became first acquainted with the perverse Pegesi upon which the Scribbler's Club was to fly in an avenging Horde against the Domed Citadel...
...College last year, which was hardly suitable for a team that is lucky to have any stadium at all to play in, should make Harvard hesitate to form an alliance. On several occasions, Patriot coach Clive Rush openly insulted the College and its administrative abilities, and once, before a flock of Boston sportswriters. Rush insisted that he would have BC hockey coach Snooks Kelley fired because the latter's Sunday hockey school was disturbing him as he attempted to address the press in the BC rink...
...church, where Father Palencia was removed, the parishioners refused to let a curia spokesman, an assistant Bishop, come into the church. A crowd of over 500 surrounded his car and nearly destroyed it before letting the terrified Monseigneur escape. That the renegade priest was far less militant than his flock was shown clearly when he led a mass asking God to forgive the violence. The crowd was obviously not very contrite; immediately after the mass a thousand people were dancing in front of the church. (El Grafico, Aug. 6, 1970, p. 8. Interview with two of the suspended priests appears...