Word: flocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hard by the Swiss-German border, 50 green-coated hunters crouched in the bulrushes and cocked their scatter-guns. The hunters were edgy. It was 7:27 a.m.-three minutes left before they could start banging away legally at the flock of plump, brown-black Belchen (coots) paddling peacefully across the nippy surface of Lake Constance. Suddenly, a single shot sounded-then a rapid fusillade. Out of the reeds raced a Swiss patrol boat. "Wrho fired those shots?" roared an angry official. "Not us," answered a sullen German hunter. "It was those damned Tierschutzverein [i.e., S.P.C.A.] people trying to warn...
...with literary vaudeville. The contrast with the scenes of death and suffering is ludicrous. A story that ends in suicide, for example, is immediately followed by one in which half the officers on the post, full of booze, jump into the officers' club pool in pursuit of a flock of ducks. In another episode, sheep get loose on the main runway when a plane carrying the Under Secretary of War for Air is about to land. There is a private from Alabama who thinks " 'tain't fit for a grown man" to make...
...this, said Secretary of Commerce Luther Hodges, just adds up to "sound economic progress." A forum of 14 economists convened by the National Industrial Conference Board predicted "moderate growth." Said one. Economist Murray Shields: "1962 will be a good year with quite a flock of new highs, but it will not be a boom year...
Coach Paul Patten's club owns victories over Colgate, Yale, and Ohio University (9-0) in its last three outings, in which Kennedy allowed only three goals. With six returning lettermen and a fine flock of sophomores, Patten has been able to assemble a quicker and better defensive unit than last year's 7-12 sextet...
This New Year an estimated 45 million Japanese will flock to Shinto shrines to watch the Kagura dancing. As they approach the altars, worshipers will clap their hands (a sign of rejoicing), silently pray for divine protection, and drop some coins into the waiting coffers as they leave. Meiji shrine alone expects a minimum of 2.000,000 visitors-which is also "the physical maximum we can accommodate." says Hiroshi Taniguchi. the shrine's leading ritualist...