Word: gather
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that of human space explorers who will sail out into the solar system like Columbus into the Western Ocean. The day of these heroes may come, but most of the scientists who spoke at Denver think it will not come soon. The present job, they said, is to gather scientific information, and this can be accomplished better by expendable instruments than by fragile, weighty humans. Some of their opinions and projects...
...intersections along northwest Detroit's Eight Mile Road Negro workmen begin to gather at 6 a.m., waiting in faint hope that somebody will come by and offer a few hours' work. "It's like the numbers game," one man says. "The odds is way against you. But what else can I do? I been out of work since last fall...
...Owen has made a mistake is apparent to all but Owen. At the drop of a skillet, Isabel quotes romantic tag lines from Sir Walter Scott, interspersed with bloodcurdlingly cute dialogue of her own. Sample: "You good husband. I bad wife. I keep ugh tepee." Around the ugh tepee gather subsidiary characters who have the power of total reverie, and pages may pass before a simple question gets a simple answer...
Play As Prologue. Last week the battle was joined at Sloane Square's Royal Court Theatre, a small auditorium where advanced people gather to witness advanced plays. The current offering was The Tenth Chance, a first play by 25-year-old Stuart Holroyd, about a Norwegian resistance leader in World War II. By the middle of the last act, Holroyd's agnostic hero was beginning to find God in the extremity of his suffering at the hands of Nazi torturers. Up stood Christopher Logue, 31, a leftist poet passionately engaged in the campaign to ban the bomb...
Peterson, who was later elected a member of the HYRC Planning Committee, announced several weeks ago that he was "out of the race." Harold Hestnes '58, who also declared himself out of the race several weeks ago, commented that Peterson had used "clever strategy," since he could gather support while Dawson was "off his guard...