Word: flocks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Village, and I showed her Palmer Stadium. She wanted to know why Harvard never carried the ball. It was too much to explain to her. She never did understand that Art Hyde, despite getting a rough going over, was buzzing the Princetons like a fighter plane after a flock of heavies. She couldn't comprehend either that it was possible to make every mistake in the game, and still remain a team...
...join the U.S. Army. But he was turned down as too old (56) and so he went back to his duties as Archbishop Athenagoras, primate of the Greek Orthodox Church in North and South America. Born in a little Greek town under Turkish rule, Athenagoras frequently reminded his U.S. flock of their good fortune. "Just to be here," he would say, "that is happiness...
...Bruins have a flock of fast 175 round backs of about equal ability...
...refused to officiate (because the captain was not a Jew); ditto a district commissioner (because he was not a British subject). He was turned down by an Anglican church in Jaffa (because the bride was not a Christian) and by a Greek Orthodox priest (who considered both outside his flock). A ship captain said he could perform the ceremony by taking them on a special trip beyond the three-mile limit. But when he quoted his price, the couple decided it would be cheaper to fly to Europe and be married there...
...moviemakers knew for sure why people flock to one movie and stay away from another, making millions in Hollywood would be much easier than it is. The clues are hard to find in Variety's box-office reports for last month. The Big Four...