Word: gatherers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cane. Inside Angola's cyclone fences are the lifers-men serving sentences for rape and murder. Periodically a short man in rumpled suit and bow tie moves into the prison toolroom, lugging a tape recorder, a six-string guitar, a twelve-string guitar and a fiddle. Around him gather the prisoners-"Guitar" Welch, "Hogman" Maxey, Robert Pete Williams-to shout out their songs...
While the CEEB will remain a requirement for all applicants to the College, the American College Testing Program may "provide useful additional information" for evaluating students from areas of the country where it is difficult to gather a large amount of material, Dean Bender said. It will take several years for adequate correlatives to be established between the new program and the older tests, however...
Only a short boat ride from his experimental summer house is one of Aalto's favorite projects-the small town hall for Saynatsalo (pop. 3,000). "I wanted to make it a town center, a building that would gather in people," Aalto explains, making a gathering-in motion with his arms, "so I put the garden inside, and then the inside is no longer neutral. I lifted the building up to make a vertical difference between the traffic in the street and the people meeting inside. The street is full of the gases of automobiles. We lift...
Venturing forth early last week from Chequers, country residence of Britain's Prime Ministers, Tory Squire Harold Macmillan earnestly read the lesson (Joel 2: 15-16) at the Anglican parish church of Ellesborough. "Blow the trumpet in Zion," he intoned; "call a solemn assembly: gather the people." Barely 36 hours later, after a fast flight to Balmoral Castle in Scotland, Macmillan officially advised Queen Elizabeth that he planned to call a general election...
Long before Club Cabazon mysteriously burned to its foundations last December, it became clear to the townfolk that the only citizen who was making any profit out of Cabazon was Mayor Tallent. An opposition group, the Civic Improvement Association, began to gather recruits. The anti-Tallent cause was helped when Riverside County deputy sheriffs raided Tallent's home, claimed they found and photographed him nude in bed with his secretary, the wife of a Cabazon cop. Says Tallent, still up for trial on a misdemeanor charge: "I will definitely ask for a jury. I don't think...