Word: gathers
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...mail carrier in Atlanta, and the family moved to a frame house on Whitehall Street, just beyond the edge of the Negro district. The children wore underwear made at home out of flour sacks, often trudged along the nearby railroad tracks in winter to gather stray lumps of coal. But the parents had something more valuable than material advantages to give. "We grew up," recalls Dean's elder brother Roger, a University of Tennessee physics professor, "in a strict atmosphere of moral integrity, imposed by both parents and schoolteachers. We were under constant admonition to excel...
Under the grey, wintry skies of Paris. the foreign and defense ministers of the world's greatest politico-military alliance gather this week. At NATO's annual meeting, the agenda, as always, is simple: the defense of Europe. But this year there is a mood that old assumptions are outdated, old battle doctrines need revision, old relationships have shifted...
...taken so long to nail Soblen? The FBI as usual had no comment. But presumably it wanted to gather more evidence, and had hoped to bag some co-conspirators along...
...injuries in sports happen often enough to keep doctors seriously worried In 1958, the U.S. Air Force announced that 3,222 of its men had been disabled or killed in sports activities during a single year.* Says Harvard University's Dr. Thomas B. Quigley: "Whenever young men gather regularly on green autumn fields, on winter ice, or polished wooden floors to dispute the possession and position of various leather and rubber objects, according to certain rules, sooner or later somebody gets hurt." Last week in Washington, D.C., 100 doctors met for the American Medical Association's second National...
...wall, lie sweltering swamps-and the mosquitoes whose deadly bite kept white men from settling Nigeria as they did Algeria, Kenya and the Rhodesias.* Beyond the swamps is the thick layer of tangled rain forest, where the natives pick cocoa pods for the world's chocolate factories and gather oil palms for the big soap firms. Then comes the undulating grass country, rising in the north to the crusty, arid, mile-high floor and then to the hot Sahara's edge, where by day nomadic cattle herders bow to Mecca and muffle their faces against...