Word: flocking
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...seems the Republican party position is to cut student aid, which students obviously need, and that is why we flock to Clinton," Dan Carney says...
...green-and-tan camouflage suit, making improper suggestions in hen-turkey language to persuade sex-crazed gobblers to strut into shotgun range, tail feathers spread, beard wiggling, wings spread and lowered. Generally, Tull says, he drives back to work happy but turkeyless. The range of a turkey flock is small, he explains, and the birds, which are quite intelligent, can spot anything out of place, like a sales rep in a camouflage suit...
...neighbors across Old Main Street, Carlton and Maggie, regularly throw corn on a big rock in their side yard, and last week the turkey flock they consider their own made its annual reappearance. There are 16 birds this year, hens and gobblers, milling about in an inch of new snow. A parked car doesn't bother them, but if you try to approach on foot, they sound their alarm call, "putt," or "putt-putt," and wander off into the woods in a not very alarmed fashion. Real alarm would send them running at about 25 m.p.h. or flying...
...SHEPHERD AND HIS FLOCK...
...developed at the expense of more traditional black church leaders, whom he has called "lying hypocrites." These, along with orthodox American Muslims, who bear him no love, are the very people whose huge followings he needs to fill out the march's ranks. The ministers, perhaps more than their flock members, take issue with Farrakhan's derogation of other ethnic groups, his demotion of black women to a secondary position and his sometime disdain for Christianity itself. Many see the march as a power grab, noting that until Chavis belatedly came on board, it was an all-Muslim enterprise. Said...