Word: flocks
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Many of the old-fashioned mansions had been torn down, to make room for smaller seashore moderns. It was getting too difficult to put up a flock of visiting amateur stars. Moreover, there was the tournament's "wear & tear on the courts." All in all, Seabright decided, it was more fun to play tennis than to watch it, even when it was good...
...responsibility for reversing the trend, says Ebony, lies mainly with the ministry. "Required is more than a simple religious training and unbounded faith in the Lord. Today's minister must be informed on problems vital to labor; he must be close to the racial grievances of his flock and be a fearless fighter for Negro rights; he must be acquainted with social services and give his congregation the benefits of that knowledge. Today's man of God must be a combination of labor organizer, race leader and social worker in addition to an inspired preacher of the Gospel...
...variety of styles: Byzantine, Gothic, Romanesque, Neoclassic. On the tops of the tallest spires are the newest accretions: huge five-pointed crystal stars which catch the sun's rays. The tall Spasski clock overlooking Red Square strikes the hour, and chimes. From cupolas, cornices, eaves and ledges a flock of ravens rises in a black cloud, filling the air with cawing, then settles...
...many a Briton dickered with an old school tie, a high point of the year is the June day when he and his kind flock to Lords cricket grounds to watch the Eton-Harrow match. But last week another Eton-Harrow match was causing comment in London. In the oak-paneled rooms of Eton's drawing schools, 40 framed samples of schoolboy handwriting were competing for first honors in the ancient art of calligraphy...
...bird-loving National Audubon Society began its week with happiness; one of its prospectors had discovered a large flock of flamingos in Yucatan. A few days later, the happiness turned to ecstasy when gladder news arrived from Texas. At Aransas National Wildlife Refuge near Corpus Christi, the message said, a precious egg had been hatched. From it had stepped a baby whooping crane, the first ever born in captivity. Thus, according to the most respected count, there were 38, not 37, survivors of the once numerous breed of whooping cranes...