Word: gather
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fifth Amendment serves as an effective barrier against inquisitorial practices. American principles of fair play discountenance attempts to condemn a person by compelling him to disclose his own transgressions. Law enforcement agencies should be encouraged to gather independent evidence by exercising an appropriate degree of resourcefulness and industry. One should always feel uneasiness when people are penalized for exercising a privilege which a venerated provision of the Constitution affords them...
...thoughts. Since William Faulkner is convinced that good whisky is an aid to enticing the muse, could Wilder explain how liquor helps? Replied he: "Many writers have told me that they have built up mnemonic devices to start them off ... Hemingway once told me he sharpened 20 pencils, Willa Gather that she read a passage from the Bible, not from piety . . . but to get in touch with fine prose. My own springboard has always been long walks. I drink a great deal, but I do not associate it with writing...
...back in his Bonn office again, Adenauer called Erhard in for a face-to-face wigging. "I do not want anyone going over to the U.S., saying that the Common Market is disadvantageous," said Konrad Adenauer, and particularly in the week when ministers of the six nations would gather in Italy to sign the documents...
Leading experts from all over the world, including some from Iron Curtain countries, will gather at the University over the vacation to take part in an "International Symposium on the Theory of Switching...
There is, of course, another alternative. Said a top Havana businessman last week: "Violence breeds violence, and events are in a vicious circle. The government should gather its courage and announce an honest election...