Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like chicks flocking to the mother hen when the storm clouds gather, Russia's satellite leaders were coming to Moscow for encouragement-and for gold, food, arms, war matériel-as the two worlds on either side of the Stettin-Trieste line braced themselves...
...does, however, admit that the squad is ready for the contest but wishes he knew a little more about Yale's ability in gather, points. Three men who had to sit out the last meet because of injuries will be ready for action against the bulldogs tomorrow. They are Doug Pirnie, Ted Withington, and Cliff Wharton...
...make love easily. In dance halls today, it is the women that wait for the men. . . . Their yearning for men is like the yearning for rain during a drought. . . . In universities, the girls are like refugees who see meat and fish before them; girl students in enticing, flowery clothes gather around ragged boy students . . . competing with each other to gain [their] favors. . . . In the streets, no more is it men who stare at women, but instead women who steal glances...
Bubbling with holiday spirits, the children dropped into their schools to ring the bells in gay derision or to gather around pianos and bang out American swing. In Dublin's green parks, sedate old pensioners and mooning poets basking in the warm spring sunshine suddenly found themselves uprooted to make way for football games. Back alleys echoed to the shouts of handball and toss-ha'penny players. The merrily rioting kids stopped politely to give their names and addresses when windows got broken. When one crowd tipped over a pushcart in Dublin's market district, another group...
...consensus of entomologists is that termite queens are egg-laying machines (as many as 4,000 eggs a day). In some species, the queens' abdomens grow gigantic, like fat, helpless grubs nearly four inches long. Around the queen, worker courtiers gather, stroking her tight-stretched body wall, feeding her helpless mouth, carrying off her eggs. The king's only duty is keeping his consort fecundated...