Word: flocks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Birdmen, known affectionately as The Flock, started off their dreary afternoon by dropping the annual baseball game, 23 to 2. Ace Crimson moundsman Mickey "The Kid" Maccoby, known affectionately to his teammates as "the Weasel," retired the entire Poonie aggregation on one pitch, his famous "blackball." Explaining his use of this dreaded weapon, Maccoby said, "It matters not if you won or lost, but who you let play in your game...
...Moscow was bright with flags and bond-drive posters. A crowd of 10,000 turned out. The parade was fine: there was a reasonable facsimile of George Washington, a flock of sheep in the Future Fanners of America entry, and a church window made of colored paper. The winning float was a 12-ft., papier-mache Statue of Liberty with a flask of plasma in her right hand and a sheaf of bonds under her left arm. One student marcher confessed that his crim son Cossack coat was really a girl's bed jacket, and one of his medals...
...Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse. Innovation, of course, involves experiment. Experiment may not always be fruitful." Concluded Churchill the painter: "In art I have found myself on the side of the disciplinarians." When the Academy's exhibition opened next day, viewers had a chance to see some examples of Churchillian discipline. He had five canvases hanging, making a total of 30 of his pictures the Academy has shown since...
Proof of the pudding is in the eating. And the proof that Harvard has not yet been seriously hurt by budget troubles is the number of qualified students and professors who flock to the school every year. They come with new ideas for experiments--kept current to meet the demands of new public health problems. Many of the younger men at one time or another have been offered jobs outside the school with a hike in salary, yet they have refused to leave Harvard. Most are confident that the school will soon solve its financial worries...
...bandit Giuliano (TIME, Sept. 12, 1949 et seq.) terrorized Ruffini's Palermo diocese so that hardly anyone dared go into the hills, Cardinal Ruffini left Palermo on foot and unaccompanied, walked up the stony hills toward Giuliano's lair and cried: "Giuliano, Giuliano, you are killing my flock, you are ruining their fields . . . Come and talk to me." After several hours waiting in the sun, when Giuliano still did not come, the cardinal gathered his vestments about him and cried aloud: "Giuliano. I am your archbishop, and I forbid you to kill!" Not till then did he walk...