Word: flock
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...call him a giant. His teeth, not Bathsheba's, were like a flock of sheep that have been even shorn. With her it was merely flattery. But everything about Goliath was larger than life. I have to chortle even now at the violent transformations he underwent when it finally began to dawn on him why I was there .. . How he howled and roared when he finally recovered from his initial moment of shock. You'd think he'd been speared in the liver. For forty days he had asked of the Israelites that they send down...
Since the United States Football League started play in 1983, the high-rolling owners of its 18 teams have each bet a fortune on the proposition that fans would flock to professional football in the spring and summer, when the air is traditionally filled with pop-ups and homers rather than punts and passes. So far, the new boys of summer have drawn disappointing crowds, suffered tepid television ratings and piled up losses of $80 million in 1984 alone. Meeting in Chicago last week, the owners decided that the only way to play for keeps is to switch...
Students over 60 flock to academe in the Elderhostel program
...Roman Catholic Church in England. The girl in the red skirt refers to the scarlet woman of Rome; the lamb in her lap is about to sicken from the green apple of false knowledge it has bitten; the sheep, wandering unattended into the corn, are the strayed flock of the Anglican clergy...
When the Yardlings flock to Sanders Theater next fall to sign up for Social Analysis 10, "Principles of Economics," they will find two new leaders and, possibly, no radical sections...