Word: gathered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...waves seemed to me to be nearer the deck, and in truth they were, for suddenly the sea seemed to gather itself together and come aboard us in a rush; a great green, smooth-backed wave surged over the side...
Last week, as another Dec. 21 rolled around, the little town of Gori was a mecca for 450 Russian writers, "intellectuals" and students sent to gather material on Joseph Vissarionovich Djugashvili's birthplace and early surroundings. Newspapers printed sentimental poems and stories about the "little house in Gori" and latest photographs showed that it had been enclosed in an ornamental stone structure and turned into a Soviet shrine. A Tiflis motion-picture studio started filming Through Historic Localities, a cinema intended to conduct the spectator through every part of the country associated with Joseph Stalin's name...