Word: shepherd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...member can choose his group and "family doctor," is entitled to 24-hour service. An internist will take care of the patient's stomachaches, an obstetrician will shepherd his wife through maternity, a pediatrician will look after his children -and nobody will worry about fees...
Labor's London Daily Herald, watching the Tory struggle for revival, scornfully referred to them as "hungry sheep" in search of grass-and of a shepherd...
Besides this quiet library there is no other place about his Belmont home that is like a scholar's retreat. Professor McIlwain and his family share the rambling, three-story house with his "houn" pack--three cocker spaniels and a German shepherd. Lizzie, the shepherd, is a rather lethargic creature, but the cockers, trailing a flying wake of carpets, play a floppy-eared game of follow the leader in and out of doorways, up and down the stairs...
Last week, Tory M.P. William Shepherd rose in Commons. Asked he: "Is it not a waste of three policemen's time? Lenin lived in the house only about a fortnight and he left without paying his rent.* Cannot the Home Secretary get this bust put in an institution...
...late winter he goes up into the hills to live with Massot, the shepherd. "Madame Massot received me with clasped hands. . . . She was an agreeable country lady, very ugly; with so much goodness in her blind eye, so much goodness in her moustache, in her snuff-taking nose, in her sagging cheeks, in her black-lipped mouth, that she was frightfully ugly. It was an ugliness made of all that sacrifice, of all that martyrdom which constitutes real goodness...