Word: flocks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fathers are willing to answer any questions," he told his Indian flock. "There is much for you to learn . . . You say you have a religion just...
Among his colleagues, Father Berard's erudition (he has written 17 scientific works on the Indians) earned him the title "Scholar to the Navajo." but his Indian flock affectionately called him "Yazzie" (Shortie). For decades he traveled the barren reservation by buckboard and horseback, preaching and studying and helping St. Michael's build up a network of schools, clinics and churches to care for some 11,500 baptized Catholics...
...Washington's Wardman Park Hotel, Cordell Hull had "no special festivities" (but a flock of telegrams from the world's great) on his 78th birthday, his first outside Maryland's Bethesda Naval Hospital in four years...
...breeder may run through hundreds of combinations before he hits a "nick"-trade slang for a good hybrid. Wallace's nick didn't come until 1942, after six years of tedious experimentations. In one year, he had to throw out 34,000 chicks from a carefully bred flock of 36,000 birds. Many of the rejects were weird freaks spawned by the intensive inbreeding: blind chickens, baldheaded chickens and cockeyed-looking birds whose beaks crossed at right angles...
...Yanks got their runs early, scoring in five of the first six innings with a display of powerful hitting that was reminiscent of the pre-war Bombers. They collected 11 hits, including Joe DiMaggio's solid home run, Bobby Brown's triple, and three doubles off six Flock pitchers. Rex Barney started and lost for the Dodgers...