Word: gathered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whoopers, says the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, had too many strikes against them. They reproduced slowly. Their protracted lovemaking customs were a liability. During the breeding season they would gather in flocks on high knolls, parading, capering, bowing and prancing in careless ecstasy. While crane-boy was getting crane-girl, pioneers crept up with scatter-guns and mowed them down...
...gather . . . that I was portrayed as a sort of bush-league Svengali, who hypnotized Senator Vandenberg. ... I suppose I should write Mr. Wallace a little mash note and, coincidentally, congratulate you on having such a remarkable young man on your staff. . . . Honestly, I didn't save the Republic; it must have been some other reporter. ... I have never written any of the Senator's speeches or any part of them...
...shown that the more a church strives to include all people, the more it bears faithful witness to God's pattern for peace. . . . The Holy Table at St. George's has for generations been a meeting point at which men of all classes and races could gather-a constant reminder that God cares for all men. . . . When people of different backgrounds and interests learn to share their hopes and beliefs within a parish, the foundations of world understanding are being laid...
...Miss Le Gallienne was again a leading spirit, but in partnership with Director Margaret Webster (Hamlet, Othello) and Producer Cheryl Craw ford (Porgy and Bess, The Tempest). It had taken the three of them two years to raise almost $300,000 from 144 stockholders (they resisted Hollywood) and to gather a permanent company, including Walter Hampden, Victor Jory, Ernest Truex and Actress Le Gallienne herself...
...Quakers handle the Society's business without resort to parliamentary procedure. Action must be taken unanimously, or not at all; for each meeting a Clerk is appointed to gather the "sense of the meeting" on a given subject, reduce it to a minute for the meeting's approval. Quakers find the method makes up in unity for what it loses in dispatch. Its one big failure: the Hicksite-Orth-dox schism...