Word: flocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Paper Solace. The result is that some areas of the vast Congo interior are at a virtual standstill; last year coffee and cotton exports yielded only fractions of their normal revenue, and much of the big palm-oil output is lost to smugglers. Unemployed workers upcountry now flock to Leopoldville, where 100,000 of the normal 300,000 labor force are already out of work. Organized gangs, ignoring the barred windows and the bright floodlights around homes of the well to do, creep up at night to saw off the bars and steal what they can. The U.N. is bringing...
Derby Day usually empties the House of Commons as Cabinet ministers, backbenchers, and the Opposition, uniformed in cutaways and grey toppers, flock to Epsom Downs. But last week, politics kept all but a handful of M.P.s from witnessing a spectacular seven-horse collision at the 182nd running of the Derby. In London, the Commons was jammed as the Tory government opened a two-day debate on the Common Market. In the constituencies of West Derbyshire and Middlesbrough West, the Tories were desperately trying to end their string of by-election defeats...
There were long lines in the Union seeking an interview with Master John Bullitt of Quincy, but the freshman class did not flock to Quincy House as much as expected. Although the newest House led the pack, the Class distributed itself rather well in applications and 90 per cent were happy with a first, second, or third choice...
Drawn largely by Monaco's saving Grace, more tourists flock in each year (122,000 in 1961), and Rainier's treasury has a surplus, despite threatening noises from Charles de Gaulle. Although there are occasional reports of marital trouble and a return to Hollywood, Her Serene Highness clearly has no wish to become Miss Kelly again. She is devoted to their precocious children, Prince Albert, 4, and Princess Caroline, 5, and apparently devoted to Rainier. "The Prince," she purrs, "is very much the European husband. His word...
...farmer is found dead, and blood streams from his empty eye sockets. A flock of birds swoops down on children returning alone from school. Slowly, the people of the town realize that the birds have declared war on them. Soon dark flights sweep down everywhere, pecking the helpless to death-and corpses soon become skeletons. Great winged armies form-crows, hawks, seagulls, ravens, eagles, finches, starlings. The birds swoop down chimneys, chip through windows, even doors, whipping every corner with angry wings. There is nowhere to hide. No one is safe...