Word: flocks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After serving as host at a heaping Thanksgiving dinner for elderly folks, Boston's unpompous Archbishop Richard J. Cushing shifted into high, merrily danced an Irish jig with two robustious ewes of his diocesan flock...
...Outsider. In Toronto, after he threw wads of paper and a lamp globe at passers-by from the window of an office building, set fire one by one to a flock of paper voodoo dolls, then touched off a 820,000 fire in the building. John Martin explained to police: "No one loves...
...Leningrad station the Porgy company filed through a welcoming committee of "giant men and shabby ladies" like a flock of gaudy parakeets uncaged into a grey wilderness. Earl Bruce Jackson (who plays Sportin' Life in the opera) had holes cut in his gloves so that all could see his rings, and he waved regally. He also kept brooding about the brown tails, with champagne satin lapels, that he hoped to wear for his planned Moscow wedding (to a cast member) and thus get into Leonard Lyons' column...
...first woman minister in its history, 31-year-old Miss Margaret Towner, longtime church worker and onetime professional photographer. Minister Towner will serve on the staff of the First Presbyterian Church in Allentown, Pa. Said the Rev. Herbert S. Schroder: "I hope you are the shepherd of the flock for whom you are responsible, and not their pet lamb...
...reason: St. Luke's mention of cattle in the fields. Since the climate of Israel has not changed very much in the past 2,000 years, meteorologists know that Bethlehem was in the grip of frost in December. In Palestine, no good shepherd would think of keeping his flock in the fields under such circumstances...