Word: shepherded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They move fast when the carabinieri arrive. Shots fly, a policeman falls. The shepherd, sure he will be implicated and afraid his sheep will die if he is sent to jail, heads for the hills and runs his flock far back among the granite desolations. The police come after him with tommy guns, and after a forced march the sheep collapse and die. Ruined, the shepherd bitterly determines to ruin others. In the movie's savage final scene he comes down like a hungry wolf on a fold and steals an entire flock from a man as poor...
That urbane unflappability became further apparent during the two weeks in 1959 when Lodge was assigned to shepherd visiting Nikita Khrushchev around the U.S. In cornfields, factories and cities, Lodge was the man who represented America to the Russians, and in the process he got to know Khrushchev on an informal basis...
...western edge of the village, where the attacking Greeks had the cover of gnarled olive trees. In one mud-brick hut, where nine Turks had taken refuge, a window was blasted by a bazooka-type rocket, and the second floor literally sieved with bullet holes. In desperation, one Turkish shepherd tried to flee to the riverbed, but was cut down a few feet from the door. Another grabbed a pitchfork, made a futile, one-man assault on the Greek position, and was mowed down at once...
...American Stock Exchange into overdue reforms, presided over the most sweeping investigation of Wall Street in 30 years. His judicious handling of the inquiry has made the SEC Washington's most respected regulatory agency-a reputation that does not hurt in Gary's current effort to shepherd through Congress the SEC's 3,000-page report calling for a thorough overhaul of the nation's securities markets. Publicity-shunning Gary's modest manner belies an inner toughness. A Marine major with the OSS in Yugoslavia during World War II, Gary once produced only...
...Suite 843 of Beverly Hills' Beverly Wilshire Hotel. The day before, disguised in a blonde wig and slacks, she had slipped out to Doctors' Hospital for removal of a cyst. Before attending an All Saints' Day Mass at the Church of the Good Shepherd, she told reporters bitterly: "I believe all the devils of hell are against us, but we will triumph eventually." If the news of the coup was true, "it would be a shame for many Americans." The Diem regime, she claimed, had been nearing victory against the Red guerrillas, and now some people were...