Word: gatherers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...delegation of Russian farmers (TIME, Aug.11), led by Acting Agriculture Minister Vladimir Matskevich, reached the farmlands of Wyoming, Nebraska, South Dakota and Texas last week. Their repeated verdict on U.S. marvels: "It is interesting, but we have something like it in Russia." Matskevich neatly demonstrated, however, that he could gather in a few U.S. idioms. "They ought to sell this air by the pound in New York," he remarked brightly to the farmers of Nebraska. And in Texas he added: "Texans don't brag nearly as much as they could...
Campy watched his buddies gather into separate groups, one for pitchers, one for infielders. one for outfielders. No one moved to the catcher's circle. Then and there, he made up his mind. Why ask for competition? He would be a catcher...
Maria de Jesus Victoriano, a peasant woman of Carvalhinho, was on her way to the top of 2,800-ft. Mount Carvalho one day last week to gather hay. "I was looking at the sky and hoping the sun would drive the fog away," she said later. "Then I heard a great hissing and roaring overhead. I thought the mountain below me had exploded." For the next few seconds, shock after shock rent the earth all around her, sending ribbons and streams of flame and debris in all directions. "It was terrible," she said, "but the silence that followed...
...incessantly in notebooks, jotting down his jet-stream of ideas (even in bed, at night, when he thinks of something, he gets up to make a note of it). The U.A.W.'s top officials have all picked up the habit; when called, they pick up their notebooks and gather around Reuther's kidney-shaped command post. If they argue too long, he snaps: "I think I know the feeling of the workers." Once a six-page draft memo was brought to him for approval. "It's too long." said Reuther, picking up his pencil. When...
Nowadays, Trumpeters Allen and Charlie Shavers head two fulltime, six-man bands that include jazz-gifted oldtimers Clarinetist Buster Bailey, Pianist Claude Hopkins, Bassist Milt Hinton, and Trombonist "Big Chief" (350 Ibs.) Russell Moore. With the help of six other mu icians who gather in smaller combos, they play their way from a slow 3 p.m. start to a frenzied 3 a.m. finish...