Word: gatherer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...commemorative event was sponsored by a 50 member group calling themselves the Johnsoniars, who usually meet each year in September to honor Johnson's birth. They met last September in New Haven but decided to gather again in December to commemorate the bicentennial of Johnson's death, which actually fell on December...
...Korean Air Lines Flight 007 in September 1983, there have been numerous theories about the events that led to the attack. One explanation appeared last June in the British magazine Defence Attaché. According to the anonymous author, the U.S. accidentally triggered the tragedy by using the airliner to gather intelligence about Soviet air defenses. The plane, the writer contended, intentionally flew over Soviet territory in order to test the country's reflexes as the space shuttle Challenger and a U.S. Ferret-D electronic data-gathering satellite observed from above...
EASTER 1963. Seven thousand pacifists gather at the United Nations Plaza in New York for the annual Faster Peace Walk, Speeches and signs focus on the rest ban treaty and the recent papal encyclical Pacem in Terris. Scattered through the crowd are signs denouncing American military involvement in Vietnam, but the issue is deemed unworthy of protest. Rally organizers demand that the signs be removed...
...deputy coroner rushed to the scene. They always rushed, because they were afraid the wagon men might grab a locket. Once there, it was the responsibility of the deputy coroner to have the body sent to the nearest funeral home owned by his brother-in-law. Then he would gather the facts. It was done this way: He would get the name of the dead person. If the man was "James Doe," he would go to the phone and call his downtown office and say, "James Roe" is dead. The downtown coroner would say "got it." He would write down...
...classical music continued to be the backbone of the station. "From what we could gather, we were one of the top two or three FM classical stations," says Porter. At the time, the FM market was very small. "That's where you found the hard core classical music and the real traditional jazz and folk," Porter says...