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...grouse or pheasant flushes from a meadow; a flight of ducks or geese goes past. The peregrine noses into his classic "stoop"-a dive to target so fast that a peregrine once outdove a plane whose pilot thought he would have some fun making a pass at a flock of ducks...
...targets in North Vietnam would halt Hanoi's capacity to fight -- and end the war, of course. The ground war in South Vietnam didn't interest him much. The decisive factors in his victory were probably his divided opposition, the low turnout (which often favors extremists whose kooky backers flock to the polls to vote for their putative saviors), and Loeb's Manchester Union-Leader, the only paper that circulates throughout the state...
...Mississippi's John Bell Williams, and minutes later, a mighty chorus of "ayes" echoed through the House chamber. The "ditch" is a projected 120-mile waterway that will connect Lake Erie with the Ohio River at a cost estimated as high as $3 billion. The project has a flock of critics. But its sponsor is Ohio Democrat Mike Kirwan, 79, the Congressman responsible each year for doling out some $4 billion in pork-barrel projects to his colleagues, and most House members would sooner abandon Panama than damn Kirwan's canal...
...able to lean upon and support Harvard's broader effort, while simultaneously reaping the benefits of the huge segment of the University's activity that will now be shifted to the Library site. Besides the faculty and graduate students in the new building, large numbers of undergraduates should flock back and forth between the complex and the Houses or the Yard. Last year, for example, more than a fifth of the senior class majored in either economics or government, the two departments that will be housed on the site. Closely-related history concentrators made up nearly another 15 per cent...
...different sections. The non-directive leader occasionally reminds the class of the observers behind the mirror when the discussion becomes too personal. Another brake on the tendency towards hostility is the rivalry among members for group leadership. Often when one leader-candidate is attacking a vulnerable member of the flock, another leader-candidate will come to the rescue of the scapegoat saying: "Now let's examine just why you feel the need to attack...