Word: flock
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With such an entertaining array of caricatures--which also includes a flock of giggly, warm-hearted floozies, a gesticulating Mexican grocer, and the large, dull-witted Black man who appears so frequently in Steinbeck's novels--Ward must have figured he could get away with very little plot. Whole scenes are devoted to "local color"--people staring off into the sea, or making idle chitchat. Early on, Doc discourses for a full six minutes about the habits of some octupi he has found in the surf. They look lovely with their frothy tendrils waving delicately in Doc's fish tank...
...million tourists who flock to the Smithsonian's ten museums every year are familiar with the big draws: the Wright brothers' Kitty Hawk, the moon rocks, Archie Bunker's chair, the Hope diamond, the First Ladies' dresses, Fonzie's leather jacket, the ruby slippers that took Judy Garland back to Aunt Em in The Wizard...
Like many Belfast children, Elizabeth enjoys getting out to the countryside as often as possible "for a bit of peace." On Sundays the parents of Belfast can put the city at their backs for a while and drive south to the Mournes, where the hill sheep flock like gulls, or north to the coast of Antrim, to stare across at Scotland. You don't see much of the army in the countryside, except around the Maze; and even that place, 13 miles from town, is partly hidden from view by a pasture and a golf course. Otherwise...
...massing flock of doves produced by these doubts and fears must not be labeled simplistically. For the most part, the protesters are not "neutralists," a term that implies abandoning NATO for an uncommitted stance equidistant from the two superpowers. Nor do they all qualify as pacifists, since many favor the defense of their continent with conventional armaments. Only in Britain and The Netherlands do most missile opponents favor unilateral disarmament, a voluntary gesture that assumes, with immense naivete, that the Soviets would be inspired to come forth and do likewise...
...flock of ten Soviet ships, including two destroyers, waited nervously at the limit of Swedish territorial waters, twelve miles offshore, as Moscow requested the right to salvage its stranded vessel. But Swedish Prime Minister Thörbjrn Fälldin insisted that his government would do the salvaging, and only after it had held an investigation to learn why the submarine had invaded Swedish waters. Such an inquiry required the presence of Skipper Gushin, but he refused to leave his ship, even when entreated by two Soviet diplomats. The Swedes settled in for a possible siege, as Gushin awaited orders...