Word: flocks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Botany courses with field trips are popular, notably Bio 103, Taxonomy of Flowering Plants. Bio 104, Plants and Human Affairs, is considered interesting and easy. Beware of courses which pre-meds flock to, like Bio 122, Comparative Anatomy; they're bound to be highly competitive...
...took M.D.C. Captain William J. Marley almost a full hour to clear traffic after the finish, and when it was all over, he estimated that the crowd was the largest to flock to the Charles in the last 1 years of racing...
...position to say "They got themselves into the mess, let them get themselves out." But certainly we are more to blame for the situation than they are, for it is we Catholics who by our excesses and dishonesty have scattered these sheep from the flock and driven them out and away from what is just as much theirs as it is ours...
...hardy islanders of Sein, off France's Brittany coast, who used to pray for shipwrecks to augment their bare subsistence from the sea. Sometimes they helped their prayers along by luring ships on to the rocks. But when the tiny island's single priest gave up his flock as incorrigible sinners and returned to the mainland, it was unthinkable for the Godfearing islanders to give up their religion. In a curious mixture of devotion and sacrilege, they drafted one of their own to carry on as the priest...
Sexton Fresnay, ragged, unschooled and in awe of the pulpit, agrees against his will to take up a few of the priestly duties. But he is pushed deeper & deeper into the role by the demands of his flock. He rejects the girl (Andrée Clement) who wants to marry him, moves into the rectory, reluctantly listens to confessions, fearfully goes through the motions of giving absolution...