Word: flocks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Grab Bag. Near Oklahoma City a flock of startled ducks flew into a duck hunter, who grabbed with one hand, bagged a mallard drake alive...
Over 300 delegates and observers from scores of colleges and high schools in the United States will flock to the University on December 27 at the invitation of the Harvard Liberal Union, when three progressive student organizations hold a National Merger Convention...
...talking of next year's harvest of tourists to Vermont, Yosemite, Miami, Williamsburg. Suddenly the sound of airplanes came from high above us. Hardly a soul looked up. I searched but could see nothing till two small clouds of glistening white like snowflakes showed where a tremendous flock of swans or geese had been split into confusion by three Airacobras. The birds formed again, melted out of sight. The planes vanished in the blue void. The Lords and Ladies of Tours talked...
Hunters. In Wheeler, Ore., an excited hunter stumbled, fell when a flock of geese honked overhead. His gun went off, bagged three. In Pittsfield, Mass., a hunter fired his shotgun at a squirrel in a tree, missed, brought down four raccoons...
Clue to the invasion, supplied by the Somaliland radio: A band of askaris made a raid to steal a flock of sheep and goats, failed...