Word: flocks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After skirting the musical fringes with his own interracial American Youth Orchestra and a series of children's concerts for a while, he resolved to try Europe. In Paris, after his debut in a radio concert, the guest-conducting offers began to flock in. Last season he led 32 concerts, and he has conducted in nine countries, from Israel to Finland. Next season he will be a resident conductor of the Goteborg (Sweden) Symphony...
...comprehend how one man can contain within himself so much bigotry and hatred as does the Rev. Roy Laurin, and he a minister of Christ's gospel . . . I also wonder how much of this hatred and bigotry he has instilled in the minds and hearts of his flock...
There, on a hot summer day, two naturalists were trying to photograph a flock of greylag geese, but some inquisitive little mallards kept getting in the way. The photographer was doing his best to call them off. "Rangangangang, rangangang-ang!" he screeched, to no effect. Then he realized his mistake. "Sorry," he said. "I mean-quahg, gegegegeg, quahg, gegege-geg!" In his irritation, he had been addressing the mallards in greylag language...
This ten-week period that a girl spends doing a job-either paid or voluntary-is probably the most unusual aspect of the college. Work begins right after the Christmas holidays and continues to the beginning of March. After a short vacation the girls flock back for the second semester...
...Flock Together. In Fort Lauderdale, Fla., cocktail lounge boss H. Greet sued the Miami Rare Bird Farm for $75,000 after 1) two parakeets he bought from the aviary "for Oriental atmosphere" died of parrot fever, 2) the county health department ordered his remaining 25 exotic birds destroyed, 3) his saloon was quarantined for five days...