Word: flocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Judy Collins only proved in Newport last week what her legions of album-buying fans have known for some time -that she is a mere maid of constant sorrow no longer but a major contender for the feminine folk-music crown, second only to Baez among today's flock of urban folk stylists and perhaps first to have lived the songs before learning to sing them...
What Keisling had composed was an intemperate, insulting attack on Goldwater, his delegates and his followers. It accused Goldwater of treating delegates as "little more than a flock of chickens whose necks will be wrung at will." It charged him with allowing the "radical extremists to use you." It denounced him for "irresponsibility in the serious question of racial holocaust." And it said that Barry's organization had "bought, beaten and compromised enough delegate support to make the result a foregone conclusion...
...state's racists, usually refers to the Constitution's publisher as "Rastus" Ralph McGill. While in office, Congressman Davis frequently castigated the papers from the House floor. "The mud throwing of this collection of little peewees," he said in 1961, "amounts to about as much as a flock of grassbirds*in a fence corner chattering at an eagle...
...cars a day that travel east or west through Bonn have to cross a railroad line that bisects the city; at three level crossings the gates are closed for 360 trains a day, or an average of 20 minutes each hour. Capital traffic is also disrupted by a flock of 400 sheep that has to cross the highway, as well as the hay wagons that occasionally break down in town. In time, foreigners learn to take such quaint delays in their stride. "C'est si Bonn," they shrug...
...independently produced. That left NBC and Emmy going steady by default, at least until May 25. The network rose gallantly to the occasion, tongue-lashing the girl's deserters-a "classic of sham and hypocrisy" and "an effective publicity stunt." Curiosity about what they would do about the flock of absentee award winners may well give the show its highest Nielsen rating...