Word: flocks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Smart Boy. Joseph Raymond McCarthy, who always signs himself plain Joe McCarthy these days, was born on a farm in Grand Chute, a few miles north of Appleton. One of seven children, he quit school early, parlayed 50 chickens into a flock of 10,000, but lost nearly all of them one winter when he came down with pneumonia and turned over his flock to some friends. At 18 he wangled a job as manager of a grocery store in nearby Manawa...
With this flock of lower-class talent, the football prospects of the Academy are not overly gloomy. Earl Blaik's distant future is comparatively pleasant; his immediate future is dismal; but his very immediate future--this afternoon--might not be too hard to take...
...about this point a commotion broke out in the audience, which was composed of followers of the suspended priest, the bums and degenerates that flock to the Common, and a solid core of hecklers. The latter began to shout questions as the speaker steadfastly shrilled on. The interruptions obviously disturbed Father Feeney. "Gee, gimme a chance, I've been out here a year and a half," he pleaded at one point...
...frankly, and the missionaries here fear that my fate will be the same as that of so many bishops in certain Red countries . . . We shall see. We are tranquil, but our sorrow lies in the fear that we may be expelled from China and have to leave our flock here and see the wolf enter the fold to make havoc of so many souls...
...accused for the first time, and tried before a muttering audience of 2,300. He was sentenced to serve six months (which he had already served), and told to get out of China. This week Archbishop Pollio reached Hong Kong and freedom, saddened by the knowledge that his flock was now the wolf...