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Word: flocks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Deeply Shocked." Almost five years ago, when Father Dubois first came to his new parish-a group of seven mountain villages 59 miles from Toulouse -his flock hardly knew what to make of the energetic priest. Sometimes he seemed to talk darkly of dogma, hinting that the Scriptures, not the church, was the only place where one should look for truth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Heretic | 1/31/1955 | See Source »

...into the Navy and shipped to the Pacific as a carrier-based pilot flying Panther jets. His boss is an admirable admiral. In fact, the Old Man (played with fine flexibility and insight by Fredric March) is something of a St. Francis in shoulder-wigs, who watches over his flock of birdmen with loving care, and especially over Holden, who reminds him of a son he lost in World War II. In the end, nevertheless, the admiral has to send his boy to almost certain death in a mission against the bridges at Toko-ri. And death it is, though...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jan. 24, 1955 | 1/24/1955 | See Source »

...cotillion figures, the Coming-Out Waltz (original music and lyrics by Virginia Scarlett, daughter of Mrs. Eugene Ong, co-chairman of the ball). The lyrics: We're coming out tonight We're having our fling Debs dressed in yards of white Waltzing we sing 'cause Beaux flock around tonight Flowers are part of the scheme Tomorrow may be just another day But tonight we are part of a dream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Part of a Dream | 1/3/1955 | See Source »

...last we have reached Takarazuka, a unique town dedicated to laughter, spectacle and melody." For 30 yen (8?) the travelers can stare at the town's zoo, flock through its botanical gardens, jitterbug on its spring-mounted dance floor, or get married in its Shinto chapel. But the main event is the big show in the rambling, 4,000-seat theater-a rare, sukiyaki-like mixture of the Folies Bergeres, Radio City Music Hall, the Metropolitan Opera and native Kabuki. It is the Japanese teenagers' most popular musical entertainment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Honorable Rockettes | 1/3/1955 | See Source »

...long, anxious watch went on-a watch in which millions of people in other faiths joined. Roman Catholics all over the world prayed: "O God graciously look upon Thy servant Pius . . . that he may profit his subjects both by word and example and, together with the flock committed to his care, attain to eternal life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Ordeal in the Vatican | 12/13/1954 | See Source »

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