Word: flocks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shows you an unhappy land sometimes does have a little luck," a Communist politician has said about Wyszynski. Most of the cardinal's flock echoes the cry of a nun in the crowd that saw him off in Warsaw last week: "He is the savior of Poland...
...arrested a gang of ex-Palestinian and Egyptian plotters armed with guns, grenades and explosives. The men admitted planning the King's assassination, and were said to have implicated Egypt's military attaché, Colonel Ali Khashaba. The King's reaction was to kick out a flock of Egyptians and ex-Palestinians (who in his illiterate country dominate administration services and the schools). Then he backed Hussein to the limit...
...life of their order. But the goal soon broadened; the Benedictines sheltered Arab political refugees displaced by the swelling national unrest, and word of the monks' kindness quickly spread. Soon the monks were treating some 200 Berbers a day at their newly built dispensary, sheltering and educating a flock of 20 orphan boys. No attempt at conversion was made. In fact, monks encouraged the young Moroccans to worship actively in their Moslem religion. Tribesmen and city dwellers respected the Benedictines, bestowed on them a title of high honor: "True Moslems...
...will have to be built over our dead bodies." When the Air Ministry showed no disposition to re-roost its rockets, 16 crofters flew to England to harass the aliens on TV. Last week Father Morrison began talking ominously of his "trump card," a scheme to have the entire flock of crofters emigrate to Canada. "It would cause a revolution in Scotland," he prophesied. Of his own role in the fight, Morrison says: "The tradition here is that the clergy are the leaders." He adds wryly: "I communicate with the bishop on other matters, but not on this one. Probably...
However, persons in this age group did not flock into the program as had been expected, in part because of the opportunity for no active duty which the National Guard and Army Reserve offered. In January, 1957, the Army announced that it would broaden the program by regulation to include the 18 1/2-25 age group, and also require active duty training of all National Guardsmen and Reservists...