Word: gather
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...general agreement of all the cruel problems . . ." The 77-year-old Prime Minister added, in what seemed a melancholy personal reference: "Time will undoubtedly be needed-more time than some of us here are likely to see." This week Eisenhower, Churchill and France's Premier Laniel decided to gather. with their foreign secretaries, at Bermuda early in December to thrash over the problems posed by Moscow's new hard line...
Without help from either official Roman Catholic sources or Philadelphia newspapers, word of the vision got around. Crowds of people began to gather in Fairmount Park, many of them invalids praying for a cure. Rosaries, holy pictures and photographs were left hanging on the bush out of which, the teen-agers said, the Virgin had appeared...
Bruce Williams '54, Accounts Secretary for the yearbook, explained the negligence, "things have always been a little mixed up down here, and we have never bothered to copyright. I gather they had a legal right to clip out those pictures as long as we were not copyrighted...
...most telling points, Judge Medina rapped the trustbusters for the methods they had used to gather evidence. Back in 1940 and 1941, the Securities & Exchange Commission had asked investment bankers for their opinions on compulsory sealed bidding by investment bankers for new security issues. Many of those who were later defendants in the case had expressed a preference for negotiated bidding, the traditional method of floating securities. "Incredible as it may seem . . . the . . . replies . . . were offered in evidence by Government counsel as some proof of the existence of the conspiracy . . . Here we are dealing with concededly honest expressions of opinion...
...Seoul's crater-pocked streets," reported TIME Correspondent James Greenfield last week, "are filled with civilian cars and taxis again. Where they suddenly came from, nobody seems to know. Every afternoon Korean businessmen, shabby in their ill-fitting Western suits, gather in places like the Teahouse of the Opening Lotus to discuss Korea's future. In buildings all over the city, shivering workmen sigh with relief as glass windows go in for the first time in three years. By night, streets are alight with candles as Koreans, with small trays mounted on wooden tripods, offer candy, chewing...