Word: herd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...city; the scramble for tickets at the box office sparked off a riot; the theater reported an average of 23 vomitings and fainting fits per performance, and promptly jacked up the admission price. And although a crew of nurses was hired to help the sick and security guards to herd the crowds, and extra movie showings were scheduled, the authorities, citing the movie as a riot hazard, still intervened and forced the theater to distribute other prints of the movie throughout the Los Angeles metropolis. Then all these other theaters took similar precautions and met with similar over-population...
Keeping track of a herd, a group rather strange...
...President could hardly have found a successor with greater contrast to the elegant Richardson. A hefty, rumpled man who chaws tobacco and plays the washtub fiddle for relaxation, Saxbe grew up on a farm near Mechanicsberg in southwestern Ohio, where he still maintains a home and a herd of prize heifers. He served as a bomber pilot in World War II and ran successfully for the state legislature in 1947, while he was a law student at Ohio State University...
...SDSers continued to press their points, Kilson yelled, "Get the hell out of my class," and proceeded to herd them out of the room, shoving those who lagged behind, Kilson said...
...taste of switch grass and cord grass, the loom of grain elevators, the feel of a kitten dropped by wanton boys into a country-school privy. But the subject is myth. Old, unbelieving, literal-minded Floyd Warner takes on immortal longings. Having defied common sense by taking a herd of sheep and a wife to the banks of the Pecos where God intended neither species to live, having defied humanity by his whole mean, solitary life, he finds himself stumbling on to an end that his rheumy eyes can hardly make out, with some of the defiant dignity...