Word: gather
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...city's stolid Dutch proconsuls, now lies half given back to the jungle, its cracked statuary staring vacantly above a graveyard of wrecked jeeps, trucks and armored vehicles. Swill and offal clog the canal that cuts through the main shopping center, and along its banks people gather in family clusters to bathe, brush their teeth, defecate or wash clothes. Hideously deformed beggars swarm the approaches to even the humblest...
...paper picked up about 70.000 new readers. To win the $25,000 in prizes, contestants have to guess the names of towns in New York state represented by scram bled anagrams (see cut) and described in such clues as: "People of one religious faith from all over the state gather here for an annual meeting. It is a small country village and was first settled about 1790.* As the Trib expected, so many contestants solved the first 54 Tangle Towns that the paper started a series of tough tie-breakers." But the double shot for the Trib's circulation...
...knew this to be a position of desperation, one that could not be held indefinitely unless the non-Communist world regained freedom of action, unless it found other than ultimate and apocalyptic ways to gather and use its strength...
...time will be successful. In our case, we could hardly believe the results for a while after we had first innoculated the tissue cultures (with polio viruses to get the growing started). And we could not really believes the results until we had conducted extensive tests to gather proof...
...performing for a special audience. The 50 men and women (among them: a biochemist, two nurses, several housewives) were no ordinary Minskyites. They were members of a class in show business from Manhattan's mercurial New School for Social Research ("where serious-minded and mature students may gather to carry on their studies in a spirit of scientific inquiry"), founded in 1919 by such scholars as Charles Beard and James Harvey Robinson. The students had come across the Hudson to Newark (theater burlesque is banned in New York City) to study one phase of their subject first hand, with...