Word: flocks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have no doubt that eligible men of the right ages would, lured by U.S. Army pay and food, flock to such recruiting offices in such numbers that we would have an army of several millions under our flag in Europe in a month or two, as a sort of American Foreign Legion abroad...
...elegant parlor for women, where they could "cut coupons and eat bonbons with equal relish." Off the parlor was a room with scissors, threaded needles, hairpins, violet water, lavender salts, scented soaps. This leisurely atmosphere paid off in accounts from prim matrons and black-bonneted dowagers. Women still flock to the bank's Victorian quarters with their paneling, candelabra and the fireplace whose log fire glows cheerily in winter...
...Lancelot Whyte's thought, his curious, almost hypnotic use of language, almost as if he regarded words as mathematical symbols, may give readers something of the sense of wonder that came to the first readers of Emerson. Like Emerson, he releases ideas like a man startling a flock of pigeons into...
...week his short, rebust figure parades up and down in a a Byerly Hall lecture room filled with scientific neophytes enrolled in the General Education offering, Natural Sciences 1. Bent over so far that he appears to be sniffing out his path, he turns frequently to gaze at his flock with what one student called "the friendliest damn eyes I ever...
...Toulouse, France, Jules Cardinal Saliège's Lenten letter to his flock began: "You have often heard it said, or have read, that Christian civilization must be saved. I say it cannot be saved, for it does not exist. We must create a Christian civilization...