Word: flocks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lions began to-roll as Johnson, Reiss and Brandt started to find the range. With five minutes to play, Columbia led, 60 to 39, and Coach Lou Rossini substitute da flock of reserves...
...noise of a late-lingering flock of wild geese going out to its day's feeding in the wheat fields woke me the next morning," Davis may write, with a mildness that is really intensely restrained affection. "The sky was already beginning to fill with light, and there were a few cold yellow sun streaks on the high ridges
...warlike fury all the while. "It was some night," reported Manager Salmon dolefully. And it was enough. Last week Manager Salmon decided to ring the field with a $12,000 electrified fence. But still the jungle would not be won: there remained the rainbirds-huge, storklike migrants who flock to Rhodesia each year in the rainy season. They were strutting by the hundreds on Livingstone's runways, as arrogant as any baboon. "The fence," sighed harassed Manager Salmon, "probably won't keep out the rainbirds...
Toto's ragged flock takes such childlike joy in simple pleasures that its members naively pay admission to a charlatan for a view of the sunset, romp happily through a snake dance when they discover water gushing out of the ground. Then the gushers turn out to be oil, and a plutocrat snaps up the property on a tip from the camp's opportunistic sourpuss (Paolo Stoppa). The plutocrat sends his private police to oust the squatters...
...Good Thief. In Atlanta, after a watch and two rings disappeared from the Rev. George VV. Jordan's home, he held a special service at his church, gave his flock a fiery sermon on "The Sin of Robbery," later found the stolen goods on his doorstep...