Word: flocking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stripped of her warm-up and donning her Everlast gloves. I was expecting, something like a roller derby queen, but the "Cat" was very real. She was beautiful, to begin with--in peak athletic condition with tight, firm skin and muscles; a cute, but tomboyish face under a flock of long, curly blonde hair. Her sparring partner was a short, pudgy guy--and they just goofed around for a few minutes until he plugged her good, perhaps by accident. Her smiles, those of an innocent outsider admiring the strangeness of it all, fled completely under the blow of Absolute Reality...
...polished that this remark was more a gesture than an apology. The new Pope twice paid homage to the Virgin Mary (a figure of extraordinary veneration in Poland) and referred to his new role as Bishop of Rome,* another bid for the favor of his newly adopted flock. At one point during the speech, a Vatican bureaucrat, caught off guard by the new Pope's departure from tradition, hissed "Basta!" (Enough!) at him; John Paul II ignored him and kept talking...
...kinds of courses undergraduates flock to are in some cases precisely the fields in which graduate opportunities are not good," Keenan said, citing American History, Government and Folklore and Mythology as examples...
What spiritual meaning, indeed, could be found in the briefest pontificate in more than 3½ centuries? Perhaps, reasoned some Catholics, John Paul was preaching a final sermon to his beloved flock, a reminder of the fragility of human existence and the unpredictable but inevitable fact of death. "His death reminds us how small and how weak man is, that life and death are mysteries, that we are in God's hand," said Willebrands. "That is why we also have faith...
Rich "The Goose" Gossage and his fine-feathered New York Yankee friends soared over Doug Bird and his flock of Kansas City Royals, 6-5, in the third game of the American League Championship Series yesterday at Yankee Stadium...