Word: flocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...agriculture since the 1930s: a guaranteed wage for the kolkhozniks (collective farm laborers) that will make their income nearly equivalent to the earnings of factory workers. The move reflected the government's desire to make farm jobs attractive enough to lure and hold skilled labor, which tends to flock to cities...
...when she was 25, she walked out of her Boston apartment with thirty dollars in her pocket and was never seen again. Is she dead? Is she living somewhere under a false identity? Or was she, like the heroine of The House Without Windows, lifted up by a great flock of green and gold and purple butterflies and borne into oblivion...
...question which liberals most often ask is, what will become of SDS members after they leave the University. Will they flock to the suburbs like their parents, as Kenneth Kenniston predicts, or will they become full-fledged radicals? Ansara suspects that many New Leftists will enter political life. The others will be "politically and socially active in addition to their professions." Ansara foresees a class of lawyers and doctors motivated by social concern rather than economic values who will help organize community projects wherever they may be living. These people, others maintain, will opt for the city instead...
Still, the new federalism implies not only that Washington will be more flexible with its aid but that the states will not besiege Washington to do jobs that they can do themselves. There are plenty of such jobs, and many of them are being attacked by a flock of progressive Governors such as Rockefeller, Michigan's George Romney, Pennsylvania's William Scranton, Vermont's Philip Hoff, Oregon's Mark Hatfield, California's Pat Brown. New York has just enacted its own program for rehabilitating narcotics addicts, and last fall launched a $1 billion water-pollution...
...year alone, the Crusaders counted the aid of 13,000 camp followers in their quest for the Holy Sepulcher. In World War I, they were the vivandieres; in Saigon today, the B-girls are called tea girls. Wherever two or three soldiers gather together, prostitutes are sure to flock, adding to the disorder that follows in the wake of armies everywhere...