Word: flocks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most of the wild animals at Tokyo's Ueno Zoo were killed by their keepers who feared they might escape during air raids. Since then, visitors who daily flock to the zoo have had to content themselves with housecats, hogs, a Jersey cow, stuffed lions & tigers. The government has been deluged with children's pleas that real live wild animals, especially elephants, be restored to the Ueno Zoo, but exchange difficulties have made it practically impossible...
...Missionary Council, biggest organization in the Protestant and orthodox missions field, proudly announced some cheerful statistics. The number of practicing Protestants in missionary areas (120 countries and island groups outside the English-speaking countries and Europe) has risen from 6,517,697, when the council first officially counted the flock in 1925, to 25,341,283 in 1948, an impressive increase...
...Boisterous Chorus. The Family Council was the Gilbreths' plan for organizing the flock into a well-run, cooperative team. Every Sunday after dinner the council, with Dad as chairman, met around the table to appoint purchasing committees, divide up the house and yardwork on an equitable basis, and make decisions on such acquisitions as rugs and dogs. As the kids realized, this was merely an extension of Dad's ideas on employer-employee relations...
...long-legged crew. A big man himself, he has no time for little men: "Unless he's six-feet-four and his hands hang down around his knees, he can't be a good oarsman." At Cambridge Bridge, the coach went wild yelling at a flock of dinghies to clear the course. In a practice spin at 2,000 meters, the varsity shell barely nosed out the freshmen. The time was slow and Coach Bolles shook his head gloomily...
...Berle ("The Thief of Badgags") has always" been so intoxicated by the sound of audience laughter that he could never resist using likely material-even if someone else had used it first. He is firmly convinced that any gag sounds better leaving his own mouth, and, argues his faithful flock, all jokes are public property any how. An understanding friend explains: "The guy just can't help imitating something that has entertained . . . His heart is in his work. He isn't happy unless he's entertaining people...