Word: flocks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most gratifying win for Norm Shepard's flock, being their first in Eastern League play this year. But the most distinctive feature of the contest was the bewildering assortment of fielding errors and mental boners which kept the spectators chortling for a full three-and-one half hours...
...accused Ralph Bunche, now a candidate for the Board of Overseers, of "advancing again and again over the last 23 years the Communist party line." Recalling the aphorism that "birds of a feather flock together," Bunker said Bunche was "one of the small handful of persons who initiated and organized the National Negro Congress,...a carefully planned maneuver of the Kremlin...
Giuseppe Cardinal Sarto, Patriarch of Venice, summoned to Rome to help elect a new Pope after the death of Pope Leo XIII, left his desk strewn with papers, borrowed enough money for a ticket, and started for the station. His flock blocked the path. "Bless us once more," they cried. "Come back soon." Cardinal Sarto stretched out his arms. "Dead or alive," he said, "I shall come back...
...part, the church is well aware that the military mind needs some special retooling before being turned loose on a flock. Says the Rev. Peter Curgenven, General Secretary of the Central Advisory Council, which is in charge of training the swelling ranks of officer-clerics: "These chaps have to learn that they can't issue orders for people to turn up at church-or court-martial habitual sinners...
...natural gas industry, the Phillips decision set up a new list of "thou shalt nots" in fixing rate bases for independent gas producers. While Phillips will be permitted to raise its overall rates by $14 million, Examiner Zwindler rejected firmly a flock of hypothetical costs totaling $35 million, which Phillips wanted included in its rate base. Chief among these was an item of $11 million for federal income taxes that Phillips does not have to pay because of the 27½% oil and gas depletion allowance. Phillips argued that it still should be allowed to charge customers for the nonexistent...