Word: gathered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MacArthur Park in downtown Los Angeles is a wastebasket for crumpled lives. On its grimy benches and littered walks gather the old, the warped, the baffled, the embittered, the workless, aimless flotsam of a great city. A faded woman in an antiquated ball dress and long black gloves glides along, clutching a parasol. Two fat, coarse-faced girls stroll hand in hand. An old man sits limp and vacant-eyed, numbed by the weight of his loneliness...
...long history of railroading in the U.S. has seen only one even partly successful attempt to gather all railroad workers into a single industrial union. That was the American Railway Union, founded in 1893 by fiery Socialist Eugene Debs. The A.R.U. rapidly became the biggest union in railroading, with 150,000 members. It was a boisterous, confident organization, and at meetings members liked to sing a rousing fight song that began...
...irked for years by what he claimed was the lifting of his news items by a local broadcaster. After a long battle with Pottstown's WPAZ, Hill last week had the satisfaction of a Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling affirming that news is the property of those who gather it, and pirates can be punished...
...such feelings, it would not be enough to extend his hotel chain merely for the sake of profit. His international expansion becomes a Hilton plan for world peace in which "people gather together in our hotels and get along with one another." "We think we are helping out in the struggle that is going on in the cold war today with world travel," says Hilton. "These hotels are examples of free enterprise that the Communists hate to see." He likes to say that "we beat Communism into the Caribbean by ten years," and one of his top financial backers, Henry...
...discrimination is still suspected, Gartner said, CORE seeks an exploratory meeting with company officials to gather more information and then makes a decision on future action. If it decides to proceed further CORE presents the company with its demands at a second meeting. Direct action in the form of picketing, or selective patronage, follows only if the demands for employing more Negroes...