Word: gathered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...That was cited by the Pulitzer committee. Some folks thought it was particularly nasty. I quote: "Times Square . . . is best known as the site where many thousands of people gather each New Year's Eve for a joyous and festive night of public urination . . . It also serves as an important cultural center where patrons may view films such as Sex Aliens, Wet Adulteress, and, of course, Sperm Busters." It seems that you try to be as provocative and as offensive as possible. Doesn't your editor object...
...largely been left out of a flurry of educational reforms that have focused on U.S. elementary and secondary schools over the past six years. That may soon change, however. This week the spotlight will be squarely on the middle grades, as more than 200 educators, lawmakers and health specialists gather in Washington to discuss an ambitious report sponsored by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Titled "Turning Points: Preparing American Youth for the 21st Century," it calls for a sweeping middle school overhaul aimed especially at helping "those at risk of being left behind." Among other things, the report recommends...
...Burton, who was with the crowds in Tiananmen Square when the shooting began, reached Assistant Managing Editor Karsten Prager. A strategy for coverage was formulated, with Aikman, Burton and Correspondent Jaime A. FlorCruz alternating between typing out details of the carnage and heading back out to the streets to gather more information. In New York City, Contributor Jesse Birnbaum and Staff Writer Howard G. Chua-Eoan sat down at their computer terminals and began updating the story that Associate Editor Jill Smolowe had finished Friday evening. Picture Editor Michele Stephenson sorted through color photos coming in by satellite, and Deputy...
...crowd began to gather silently last Monday afternoon on the streets adjoining the Boerio Supermarket in Rosario, Argentina's third-largest city. The tin-roofed grocery store had served its middle-class neighborhood for years, so manager Luis Nicastro recognized many of the well-dressed people outside the store as his regular customers. Some of the others were toothless, hungry folk in tattered clothes, who came from nearby shantytowns. By 2 p.m., a mob of more than 500 filled the parking lot. "I thought of closing the doors," Nicastro says. "But what good would it do? With all this glass...
...fine ensemble of young actors who are members of the film's eponymous secret society (notably Robert Sean Leonard and Ethan Hawke) grope with energetic sobriety toward an idea that Keating keeps putting to them every way he can. It is this: the business of education is not to gather facts but to find a ruling passion, something around which you can organize your life. This is a point that seems to elude most kids nowadays, probably because it is one that their popular culture rarely troubles to make to them...