Word: flocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What businessmen have to be thankful for this week is a flock of fresh omens that the economy may avoid the much-anticipated recession early...
Heeding the counsel of both Pat Brown and Dick Nixon. California defeated 3 to 2 a scheme that would have allowed grand juries and a flock of state and federal boards and officials to pin the label "Communist" on any organization. In effect, the proposal would have turned grand juries into judges as well as accusers. The leader of the fight for the amendment, which the Los Angeles Times called "intolerable to free men," was whiskery Actor Walter (The Real McCoys) Brennan. who rounded up nearly a million signatures to get the plan on the ballot...
Coach McCurdy's present 6-0 record borders on the miraculous when the rash of injuries and illnesses that have plagusoned runners and a flock of sophomores, McCurdy soon found himself without the ed the squad are taken into account...
...allocation to expand the General Assembly Hall and the office space for member nations; but to no avail. The shoe-thumpers are having their revenge in the appropriations committee; and the kindly Burmese may have to ask the most recent additions to his flock to bring camp-stools. Or perhaps he could encourage more of those important conversations in the corridors one reads so much about...
...regal type for a walk-on part in the film version of the famed Swedish fairy tale The Wonderful Adventures oj Nils, the producers gave the royal palace a "call. The scene required a noble-looking gentleman to walk through his chamber onto a balcony and peer at a flock of wild geese flying overhead, astride one of which is a ten-year-old boy, Nils. Most of the scene was shot from a hovering helicopter and two time-consuming retakes were needed. Patiently doing his bit: good old (79) King Gustav VI Adolph of Sweden...