Word: gathered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rocky," as Latinos call him, and his more than 20 technical advisers are not on the road in order to make any recommendations themselves, but simply to gather suggestions from their host counterparts. The only message that Rockefeller has brought is: the United States alone cannot provide unlimited amounts of dollars needed to bring Latin America from the burro age to the jet age. "I am asking you to suggest other ways that we can help," he said...
...hotel is a vast rococo establishment. In the offseason, the staff tends to outnumber the 20-odd guests. Most of these regulars are women of 60 or more-a couple of Americans, a few English, a stray Parisian countess or two. Twice a day they gather in the Winter Dining Room, a smallish chamber in the hotel basement, which, despite lavish importation of daffodils and red tulips, is a frightful miniature of desolation. All guests have their own tables; there is almost no talk. The Nabokovs have a cook and eat here only when they have visitors...
...silence was broken by screams and everyone started to stampede away from the spot, as if the killer had gone beserk. A thousand people were running down the street at full speed. I heard another shot. Two. Three. More screams. Then the stampede stopped and people were beginning to gather around the wounded woman again. No one else had been hit. From the gestures of the people around the scene, I supposed that the gunman had run down a side street that angled off of Rampart...
...books were officially closed on the Pueblo incident last week, other U.S. spy ships and planes continued to gather intelligence around the world. Still, like Pueblo and the EC-121 surveillance aircraft that was shot down last month off North Korea, they remain highly vulnerable...
Long before dinner was served, one or two hundred men would gather at the kitchen tent, not so much because the menu was outstanding, but because the food line passed a warehouse where a nubile brunette bounced around in her low-cut blouse and tight dungarees loading supplies for helicopter shipment...