Word: flocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...truce talks got under way at the presidential palace in Bamako, Mali, to settle the border war between Morocco and Algeria, a flock of vultures hovered overhead. As if to counteract such ominous signs, Malian witch doctors with grotesque ritual masks came from miles through the bush. There was plenty of work for them...
...what extent. Council progressives believed, as one American theologian put it, that "this council was called to abolish papolatry." But to council conservatives, collegiality means a sharp loss of power. Archbishop Dino Staffa, an official of the Roman Curia, contended that "supreme power over the entire flock of the faithful was entrusted to Peter and Peter alone." The implication is that such power was also entrusted to the Curia, which is responsible to the Pope and not to the bishops...
When he left the auditorium, a jeering flock of pickets swarmed around him. Many lugged anti-U.N. and anti-Adlai signs. The crowd began to jostle Stevenson-and a woman clunked him on the side of his head with a card board sign that said "Down with the U.N." Startled, Stevenson called out to policemen who moved in to collar the female, "Wait a minute. I want to talk...
...publication of such exclusive editorial devotion, Sunset has attracted a considerable if parochial flock. Each month it reaches a paid readership of 733,304, all but a handful in the eight Far Western states-California, Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Idaho, Nevada, Utah and Hawaii-that Sunset regards as its parish. It is not interested in the rest of the U.S.; it even discourages outside circulation by charging a premium subscription rate of $1 more a year. The ideal subscriber is perhaps typified by the man who moved his family West from Minnesota and informed the magazine that "Sunset...
...first hour on the job last week, Teacher Novak confronted a "typical" U.S. high school. While hordes of undisciplined adolescents rush about to the beat of jazz music, a flock of frightened new teachers get a speech from the principal (Dean Jagger). Never get "personal" with students, says he; take all problems to administrators. Rejecting that edict, Mr. Novak gets personally interested in a bright kid who wants to drop out-and settles his problems in a 90-second confrontation. "A born teacher," mutters the principal magnanimously. "He knows when to break the rules...