Word: flocks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shops in Boston would close, and a large percentage of Boston's population would flock to Cambridge on every kind of vehicle. One anonymous Boston poet of about 1760 wrote...
Beneath her brass-blonde chignon, Dorothy Lawlor's busy brain had cased all the angles. She had been married at 15, divorced at 19. She had two kids, no man, and a flock of debts. Now she was 27, and checking hats in Johnny Shields's Midway Inn, Valley Stream, Long Island (pronounced "Long Guyland...
...that same moment, sentries on an opposite corner of the wall rubbed their eyes. A flock of black sheep was emerging from the night like a moving blot. When the animals reached the wide moat in front of the wall they plunged in, began swimming across; yet there were no visible herdsmen. A sentry fired into the flock. One of the dark objects in the moat erupted in a geyser of flame and water. Then men on the wall witnessed an amazing thing: some of the sheep seemed to be flipping off their black wool skins and running away...
...flock of more than 200 young Christian scavengers who faithfully attend his Sunday School, Ye Yun Ho is presently engaged in a campaign to teach them the use of soap and water. Believing that cleanliness is next to godliness, he has been cutting cakes of soap from the relief packages into small pieces and leading his charges down the embankment from the church to the Han, where, he says, he is making slow but recognizable headway in teaching them the blessings of a daily bath...
...observed that Negroes will flock to work-and work just as hard-for a farmer who is known to be unfair and cruel as for a kind and honest one. His explanation: almost every Negro suspects in his heart that all white men are alike, that all will rob and deceive him, no matter what their conduct seems...