Word: flocks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years the Rev. Georges Bissonnette of Central Falls, R.I. has shepherded a strange little flock in a dangerous wilderness. Under the terms of the 1933 Roosevelt-Litvinoff agreement by which the U.S. recognized the Soviet Union, U.S. denominations were permitted to send clergymen to minister to their nationals in Moscow. The Augustinians of the Assumption were chosen to supply priests to the Roman Catholics, and Father Bissonnette was the fourth Assump-tionist to serve a tour of duty in the enemy's citadel (no Protestant groups have ever sent ministers...
...Chip") Bohlen that Father Bissonnette's expulsion was a violation of the 1933 agreement and was "in no way related to cases of temporary visits" like that of Metropolitan Boris. In Moscow Father Bissonnette sadly said a last Mass in his apartment for 20-odd members of his flock. He advised them to turn for spiritual guidance to the Russian priest of the Church of St. Louis, Moscow's only Roman Catholic Church. Said Father Bissonnette: "If you do not speak Russian or Polish and have trouble with the language, just say 'Ya vinovat...
...hand, and to games of chance on the other, have asked me if the dean's mother knew of this duty, did she have any preconceived idea about it, or were the circumstances such as to make the dean a lucky number. I have told my innocent flock that in any case, we owe to the dean's Godfearing and benign mother the life of this apostle of the unborn babe...
...shortage of harvesting machinery" (much of it had been moved to Siberia to take care of Khrushchev's ambitious scheme for developing that dry and virgin area). In the same winter the meat and dairy industry suffered severe setbacks, and the U.S.S.R. lost 2% of its sheep flock...
...statues, ski jumping meets, and Queens of Snows, the Dartmouth Winter Carnival after sunset on Saturday evening takes on a remarkable resemblance to any other big Ivy League weekend at any other season of the year. With skis and skates forgotten, crstwhile outdoor types flock to the warm fraternity houses and their well-stocked bars. And the Dartmouth man, looking uncertainly at all the Harvard and Yale men around him, makes his annual concession to conventionality: he puts on a coat...