Word: gatherered
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...originally expected more than $3 million in public money, but she failed to gather the requisite 6,000 small contributions necessary to qualify, and she has spent less than $3,000 since the primary...
...skills, intelligence, or hip-hop itself—Slug raps about what eats at him inside. Check “Shrapnel” from the new Atmosphere album, God Loves Ugly: “Check your mail, climb your ladder / Count the pieces you’ve managed to gather / Does it matter? What you trying to achieve? / Let go of your throat if you’re dying to breathe.” Riding producer Ant’s skeletal boom-bap, Slug spits each carefully sculpted rhyme with a clarity and understated resolve that unfailingly drives his thoughts...
...duty did not transform me into Henry Fonda; neither has a year at Harvard, mercifully, made me into Love Story’s Ali McGraw. Ultimately, I think, ours is a justice system that does not rely on a citizenry of Henry Fondas. It is enough for us to gather in a shabby room and watch television. The Constitution guarantees citizens an impartial jury of their peers, and while it’s a little troubling to learn that our peers find Regis Philbin really funny (something the Framers can’t have anticipated), and disappointing to learn just...
...Abdul Qadir Khan, the so-called father of Pakistan's Bomb. As head of the nation's nuclear program, he made the Ghauri as a carbon copy of North Korea's Nodong missile, say U.S. officials. Khan is believed to have established front companies and smuggling operations to gather and sell nuclear gear and blueprints. Musharraf forced his resignation as the lab's leader 18 months...
...speeches are what I will never forget. He would come to the floor, often late in the afternoon or the early evening, long after most of the Senate had closed up and gone home. We would scurry to gather water and easels and whatever else he needed as he limped to a desk. Then he would launch in, slowly building in tone and volume and becoming more animated as his passion ignited, stretching the limits of his microphone cord as he shook his fists and pounded the desk as he championed the forgotten little people of America?...