Word: gathered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...need all the help we can get. If you do not want to occupy, you can help by doing important support work in Boston or at the legal campsite on the coast near Seabrook. Without this work the occupation will fail. We need drivers, office staffers, medics, people to gather food, supplies and money to keep the occupation going. We need people to join the occupation to replace those who will have to leave. And we need leafletters and canvassers to explain the nature of our action to others, and to join in a mass unobtrusive picket at the plant...
...offer him one of my Marlboros. This is not, I gather, what he wants. With beer at 90 cents a pop, dope has become cost effective, a weird Republican alternative: more bang for the buck...
...will travel with the papal party on the week-long trip. A small, balding and very nervous man has been handed the microphone--his voice is a mix of officious timidity. He's losing his audience. Content to find their own information, the crowd drifts away. The reporters gather around the monseigneur and the bureaucrat who are holding the seats for Pool Bus one. There is a friendly reminder that all pool reporters must share their information with each other. There are mild guffaws...
Participants in the march will gather at the Harriet Tubman House on the corner of Columbus and Mass. Ave., at 2 p.m. today. State Rep. Melvin H. King, the leader of the walk, refused to outline the route of the walk...
...introduction to the use of the "babbler." This was a cassette tape I had brought with me, which played a bizarre recording of what seemed like several dozen voices talking gibberish simultaneously. If I wanted to confer with my colleagues without being overheard by listening devices, we would gather around the babbler, speaking softly among ourselves. Theoretically anyone listening in would be unable to distinguish the real conversation from the cacophony of recorded voices. Whether it worked or not we could never be sure. The only certainty was that anyone trying to talk through the mind-numbing babble...