Word: flocking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...while designed, or course, to get the support of "all hand and brain workers," is at the same time likely to gather under its standard a great many persons who would like nothing better than to wreck our government. All the I. W. W. people and Red agitators will flock to it, not because they believe that in it lies the salvation of the workingman, but because they think they see a chance to get something for themselves. It is possible that in a short time it will make itself a dictator, and the tyranny of the many...
...Their flock to Faith that so the Antichrist...
...lands, when he was called away from his cherished studies to be an archbishop and a cardinal. A dozen years later his country was overwhelmed by a war conducted with a barbarity armed by all the resources of civilization. In that time of gloom his voice was to his flock a consolation, his face was a benediction. Four and a half long years he sustained the courage of his people; while his protests, which rang through out the world, were for the oppressors a rebuke and a defiance which they did not venture to suppress...
...English Army at Dannes-Camieres near Boulogne in June, 1915. It was one of a large number of hospitals which stretched south for twenty miles along the seashore road from Boulogne. Most of the British supplies were landed and stored in this district which, consequently, drew an almost continual flock of enemy bombing machines...
...cover his withdrawal. So on we went all that day, through wheat and grass, and potato fields, through tangled thickets and stately groves and along roads and trails--all under a beautiful clear blue cloudless sky, through which the sun sailed merrily on, and through which, also, a flock of Boche airplanes soared and wheeled, directing the batteries on our poor tired devils, dropping bombs and spitting machine gun bullets. Then, about 4 in the afternoon we ran into a machine gun nest which wouldn't give in. One company tried to smash it, failed and fell back. We took...