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Word: flock (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...skeptical about the prospects for effective student government at Harvard, where most natural leaders tend to flock to other campus organizations and where spontaneous protests and coalitions galvanized at the last minute tend to be more effective. But all undergraduates should use their votes seriously, because the council's first-ever $60,000 budget should be allocated prudently and because student government should broaden beyond the clique of adolescent megalomaniacs who have dominated it so often in the past...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Agenda for the Year | 9/16/1982 | See Source »

...effect, channel 7 has told the viewers, "the only difference between our news operation and channel 5's is John Henning. Since we've hired him, its time for you to switch to us." Clearly, the viewers weren't convinced. They didn't flock to channel 7 either a few months, when it lured two attractive young anchors, Brad Holbrook and Susan Brady, from Nevada and Buffalo respectively...

Author: By Steven R. Swartz, | Title: Anchors Away | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

...South American politicians, military officers and businessmen (including Sindona), on the secret membership list. P2 was trying to support anti-Communist movements in South America and subvert the Italian state by taking control of its institutions through the lodge's influential membership. The discovery of P2 and its flock of politicians helped to topple the government of Prime Minister Arnaldo Forlani...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy: The Great Vatican Bank Mystery | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

...Blazejowski (Michael Keaton), is trouble: a pin wheel of sputtering ideas, a motormouth that roared. Out of desperation and a growing fondness for the girl next door (Shelley Long), Chuck devises a scheme that will make them all rich: he and Billy will act as "business agents" for a flock of unchaperoned prostitutes, and his office will become the best little morgue-house in New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Slaphappy | 8/9/1982 | See Source »

...course, if you have heard their stuff, seeing them live can be downright illuminating, for more than most bands the Gang defines itself in concert. The sheer responsibility of leading that flock of faithful followers dancing wildly before them evokes the best of the Gang. The brutal drive of King and Gill--suffused by the stylish yet restrained nature of a record-comes to life, egged on by the demanding presence of the audience...

Author: By Micheal J. Abranosrit, | Title: Gang Politics | 8/3/1982 | See Source »

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