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Word: flocks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...economics division has told him is that the international air policy of the U.S. is all wrong. When it first told him this, Pan American Airways' smart Juan Trippe was plumping for the Chosen Instrument. When Patterson supported Trippe, the other domestic lines went after him like a flock of hawks. But Patterson has stuck to his guns. The current U.S. policy of regulated competition, on international routes, says he, will not work. He has some claim to impartiality in the argument. United was-and is-the only big U.S. line that does not want to do any large...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Raven Among Nightingales | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

...addition to Bennett, Brown will unveil Bill Dwyer, third in the indoor IC4A 50-yard dash, and a flock of capable field events men, including a high jumper who clears six feet three inches...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brown, Rhode Islanders Hit Stadium Cinders Tomorrow | 4/18/1947 | See Source »

...world's fattest trade union, facing a major crisis, last week showed no more solidarity than a flock of peacocks in a thunderstorm. India's Chamber of Princes (an undisciplined brotherhood of rajas, maharajas and nawabs, with a stray Gaekwar and Holkar) held its annual conference in Bombay's Taj Mahal Hotel. The princes looked out over the bay and pondered a prospect that many a union man has faced before-technological unemployment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Bejeweled Blacklegs | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

Branch & Leo. The shepherd of St. Louis' wild flock was Branch Rickey the Bible quoter, who dutifully shunned the ball park on Sunday, the day the turnstiles clicked most merrily. Rickey considered himself a molder of character, and Leo became his pet reclamation project...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Lip | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

While rumors filled the air as to who the next manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers would be, the erstwhile pilot of the Flock still had not announced his plans for sitting out 365 days of suspension from Happy Chandler's portion of organized baseball. University officials were without comment on the CRIMSON's, suggestion that the Lip be offered a job as assistant baseball coach here...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Proposal to Hire Leo Here Meets Officials' Silence | 4/12/1947 | See Source »

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