Word: flocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...taxi operators he called "the biggest crooks and racketeers in Europe." Even friendship is no insurance against a Fielding knock if an establishment goes sour. But he knocks in the pained tones of an evangelist trying to persuade a fallen woman to return to the flock...
...liberal, his academic robes billowing in the wind. We laugh at his appearance. He tells us that our action will precipitate a massive right-wing reaction in the faculty. He confides that the faculty had been nudging Kirk toward resignation, but now we've blown everything, the faculty will flock to the support of the President. We'll all be arrested, he says, and we'll all be expelled. He urges us to leave...
...foundation's penchant for controversy is abetted by a flock of waggish personalities who are refreshingly aloof from the slick chat of commercial radio. KPFK Disk Jockey Lew Merkelson, an ex-truck driver who runs Los Angeles' most knowledgeable classical-music program, often invites local enthusiasts to come in and play their favorite records on the air. Newscasters at Pacifica stations report only top stories; at KPFK, they take pride in the fact that they never even mentioned Jacqueline Kennedy's wedding...
...trip drinks into a sewer at the press of a button, but logs still crackle in the fireplaces and a $750,000 collection of paintings, drawings and bronzes adorns the paneled walls. Habitues include the rich, the powerful and the famous, plus thousands of others who flock there to see or be seen, attracted as much by the mystique as the cuisine. A hamburger lunch may cost $14 with a drink or two, yet industrialists, movie stars and social celebrities covet "territorial rights" to "21" 's hard-to-get tables. Their patronage helps the club to earn a substantial...
...country churches are sad reminders of a vanishing way of life. Except for occasional tourists, few people ever visit them; each year their congregations grow ever smaller. "There hasn't been a wedding here in twelve years," laments one venerable priest who stubbornly refuses to abandon his diminishing flock in the village of Ox-combe. "We only have funerals...