Word: herding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...before it. When they came to fences they turned, followed the wire. But some time during the second night, when the snow was belly deep on the flats and higher than a rider's head in the drifts, they stopped. When the storm ceased and the cold intensified, herd after herd stood wearily with their breaths steaming, waiting patiently for death...
Andy Muldoon dropped back into the end zone as he took the pas from center, and flipped a short screen pass over the charging green forward wall to Sto Bell, who galloped all the way behind a thundering herd of nine Deacons. Bell then booted the conversion to account for all the scoring in the contest...
...Granz's herd will undoubtedly put on a well rehearsed, intelligently organized performance with all the polish to be expected of professionals. But not everyone in the audience tonight will enjoy it. The re boppers will like it whole-heartedly and stamp their feet for more at the end, the antiquarians will view it all with detached amusement, but the gentler souls will spend most of the time nervously looking around for the nearest exits...
...Communist Party is ... a tiny, privileged ruling class marked off from the great herd it governs as sharply as any ruling class in history. It attracts the ablest and most ambitious men, because it is the only ladder to power and to all the dignities that go with it. It also attracts some sly scoundrels, but these I believe are rather rare exceptions...
...Gazelle Boy, said the U.P.-and here's an eye-witness story by his captor, one Prince Fawaz el Shaalan. A lot of U.S. newspapers and magazines* printed the picture with goggle-eyed captions telling how a jeepload of hunters had cut him out of a herd of gazelles in the Syrian desert...