Word: flocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about to come true. "Sometimes I feel like an unmusical person who attends a concert and doesn't really understand what seems to excite everybody," he says. "On other occasions I feel like a mother goose who has hatched a brood and now, somewhat perplexed, watches the flock going off into the water. It is only very rarely that I have the satisfaction that everybody believes I ought to feel...
...McNally's invincibility, the Orioles are hardly a one-bird flock. Pitchers Tom Phoebus and Jim Palmer have 16 wins against four losses between them. Slugger Frank Robinson has snapped back after a dismal season last year, and is currently the league's second best hitter with 17 home runs and an average hovering around...
...Henry Parsons, 73, became everybody's sentimental favorite with the holler that he used as a boy when he drove the wagon in for the evening. Splitting the air with a high, resounding falsetto, he yodeled up and down the scale like a goatherd piping to his flock. Said Parsons: "I would holler my holler, and by the time I got home and had the mules unhitched, Mother would have the ham a-fryin' and the peas a-cookin...
...Harvard has beaten the M.I.T. boat twice this year, and should expect little trouble from the London Rowing Club, which leads a flock of local English entries. A west German eight is also competing and the presence of the Garda Siochana, a boatload of husky Dublin policemen, is not unexpected...
Both courses and extracurricular activities also keep the H-R students out of sight. They tend to flock toward the time-consuming laboratory courses, such as the infamous Chem S-20(organic chemistry--60 lectures, 100 hours of laboratory, 13 exam hours of it during the summer._ Outside of course, the H-R students, continuing their winter habits fragment into innumerable small groups centering about activities ranging from the drama to the pinball machines at Tommy's Lunch. (Certain fans of both tend to claim that these two activities are not entirely dissimilar...