Word: shepherded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spit-and-polish commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps. General Lemuel C. Shepherd Jr., sourly noted the uniformed posteriors of some of his men, ordered all Marine commanders to take "immediate steps" about "the trousers too short and too tight in the seat...
...Peter Pan is not all pure gain as a musical, one reason is the indifferent quality of the music, which has nothing better than the tinkling prettiness of Tender Shepherd or the straightforward lilt of I've Got to Crow. And with the original Barrie story very much cut into but seldom seeming cut, Peter Pan comes off a bit more of a long show than a fully sustained entertainment. Barrie and Broadway are not quite an ideal couple. But their marriage has been celebrated with truly festive splash and animation...
...country, Shepherd Maamar Bentouta was standing watch over his sheep. "Suddenly," he said, "I saw the earth opening up all around me and my sheep disappearing into enormous crevices." Almost caught in a crevice himself, the shepherd crawled home with a broken rib only to find his wife and children crushed in the ruins of their cottage...
...except me," said Thomas later. "My mother said I should be ashamed, that I was leaving slavery and had a whole life of freedom ahead of me." Once they stopped to rest, for Angelica, Thomas' 24-year-old sister, was seven months pregnant and tired easily. Ghioris the shepherd went ahead to reconnoiter, and threw stones back to signal that the road was clear. They climbed...
...hour later Ghioris again went ahead, presumably to scout. This time there was no reassuring sound of stones. Instead, the night burst into flame and thunder as rifles and machine guns blasted into the party from three directions. The shepherd had led them into an ambush. Flares arched overhead while tracers and steel slugs slammed against rocks, whining off into the night. Thomas heard the screams of the women, and once by the light of flares caught a glimpse of moaning clumps on the ground...