Word: flocks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Camillo Berlocchi, shepherd of the flock in the Umbrian village of Vingone, brooded long and bitterly on the day the results of the Italian elections were announced. All over the land before the voting, "sacred notices" were posted warning Christians that "all are excommunicated and apostate" who support the Reds or "those parties which make common cause with Communism." In parish after parish across Italy the Reds lost strength. Yet in Don Camillo's own village of 400-odd people, the Reds gained. Vingone cast 210 votes for the Communists, only 78 for the Christian Democrats...
...Italy, where Communism is big business, Reale held the key position of party administrator. As such he sat on a three-man committee, supervising the flock of import-export firms which the party has set up or taken over to handle Soviet-bloc trade in Italy. Italian businessmen rapidly found out that the only sure way of doing business east of the Iron Curtain was to let these Red companies handle their trade. By last year, U.S. experts estimate, the firms handled more than half of Italy's $123 million East-West trade...
...when it was all over, Stalin cut them down to size in a new purge. Described as "filthy" and "obscene" in journals controlled by Author Fadeyev's union were two survivors of the revolutionary epoch: Satirist Mikhail (The Adventures of an Ape) Zoshchenko and Poetess Anna (The White Flock) Akhmatova. Even Fadeyev, criticized in Pravda, had to eat a little crow. Told to rewrite Young Guard, he said: "I quite agree...
Though he had been their pastor for six years, the congregation had a lot to learn about Massachusetts-born Pastor Seastrand, 40. Many a Southern pastor who thinks church segregation un-Christian is afraid to buck his all-white flock to abolish it. Not so Paul Seastrand. "God and one," he said, "is always a majority." Amid some ominous grumblings, he began a persistent campaign to persuade his congregation to "meet the challenge of integration." He preached the Christian view of equality. "It is not my purpose to force on you my own convictions," he said, "but to endeavor...
...seemed to Padre Zamorano that the main problem of his flock was its poverty, which he blamed on the 15?-a-day wages paid by the landlords. "The villagers cannot pray on an empty stomach," he insisted, and he sought a political solution. He persuaded his parishioners not to sell their votes to the landlords and urged them to register. At length his advice caught on. Last March Catapilco's people picked a peasants' candidate to represent the village on the township council. The candidate's name: Padre Zamorano...