Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Haganah and the Jews of Palestine, the entrance of European refugees is no longer a question of the wisdom or foolishness of policy, but simply something that must be accomplished. When Haganah men gather, the toast is always, "To the ships...
...American delegation was first to arrive in Prague. For more than a week we had the indescribable thrill of watching more than three hundred delegates from thirty-eight countries gather at the Congress; of awaking one morning to find Moslems bowed down toward Mecca on the lawn outside; of brushing past kilted Scots in the packed dining hall; of looking on while Yugoslavs chanted defiant Partisan songs and would slowly about in their locked-step snake dance...
...deity is General MacArthur himself. The worship has been fed by the General's dramatic aloofness. He lives behind a white concrete wall on a towering hilltop; his paneled office is seldom visited by a Japanese. When he steps out into his long black Cadillac, crowds gather to gaze at the man who, rumor says, is descended from Amaterasu, the sun-goddess...
Growth-regulating chemicals are working an agricultural revolution. They defoliate cotton plants, enabling mechanical cotton pickers to gather clean cotton, something they could not do before. They make apples hang longer on trees. They kill weeds selectively. They semicastrate tomato flowers, and produce seedless tomatoes...
...World War II, Brazil transported two armies. One sailed to Italy and fought, returned to a heroes' acclaim. Another, an 18,000-strong labor army, went north to the Amazon to gather rubber for a needy Ally-and never came back. By last week, its disappearance was a major national scandal...