Word: flocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After a week of campaigning, Algeria's voters were urged to flock to the polls to vote for one unexciting 138-man list of carefully selected candidates for the National Assembly. The pro-government newspaper Alger Republicain tried to reply to "those who regret that our country is not the scene of electoral battles as are practiced elsewhere" by lamely explaining that a "multiplicity of parties and programs is not necessarily synonymous with real democracy...
...German officers on the hill realized that York was virtually alone, sent eight men charging him with bayonets. York had used up all his rifle bullets, but he took out his pistol and picked all eight off, firing from rear to front-just as he had often potted a flock of wild turkeys back home...
Beirut is also beautiful, with cool groves of umbrella pines and great clusters of purple bougainvillaea. It is rich, not from oil but from oil revenues of more than $3 billion a year, poured in by sheiks from Kuwait and Saudi Arabia; they flock to Beirut to play among a people who speak their language and understand their needs. Moreover, 92 banks flourish on deposits from Arabs who are distrustful of their own governments and appreciate the Swiss-like secrecy enforced by law. Recently, Intra Bank of Lebanon bought the 28-story Canada House on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue...
...absence of unusual circumstances," automatically grant stays in reapportionment cases if so much as one citizen in an affected state requested it. To Senate liberals and Administration loyalists, the Dirksen rider was distasteful because they felt that it threatened the integrity of the judicial process. Almost immediately a flock of dissident Senators threatened to filibuster the measure to pieces...
Since 1944, his archdiocese has grown to 1,767,000 Catholics, and is the third largest in the country, after Chicago and New York. To serve this flock, Cushing has welcomed more than 60 different religious orders into Boston, and given so much help to the Jesuits that he has become one of their few benefactors known as "founders"; when he dies, every priest in the Jesuits' New England Province must offer three Masses for the repose of his soul...