Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will send its best cross-country runners to Harvard tomorrow to do battle with Jaako Mikkola's Navy runners. The event will be held on the 3.7 mile handicap course, and the squad will gather at the Dillon Field House before the races...
...jungle village of Itacuarare live gentle, simple folk who gather herbs and mate in the forests, do a little innocent smuggling across the nearby Brazilian border and often wag their heads over the legend of Pacifico Batista. Fifteen years ago handsome young Pacifico quarreled with his dark-eyed Itacuarare sweetheart, disappeared into the jungle and was seen no more...
...Intelligence) must gather, evaluate and disseminate all essential information (notes about the enemy's armor, defenses, equipment, facts about the terrain, everything that needs to be known before the start of a combat). Head of Eisenhower's smooth-working Intelligence is Brigadier Kenneth W. D. Strong, at 43 one of the British Army's bright young men. Strong's receding chin and horn-rimmed glasses make him look like an American caricature of an Englishman. He is a leading authority on the German Army, an able military thinker. At work he religiously wears the tartan trousers...
...Southwest, the U.S. was hot and dry last week. Rain came in dribbles, or not at all, and temperatures sizzled above 100°. In other parts of the country grain, vegetables and fruit grew fat and ripe. But there were not enough men, women & children to gather them in, store and process them. The U.S. food supply was running a dangerous race against: 1) drought, 2) manpower troubles...
...James Wilson, an ambitious politician (later Finance Minister to India), founded it, his primary purpose was to propagandize against the British corn laws (regulations on the import of grain) and support the laissez faire movement. He shrewdly mixed some political and business articles in with the propaganda, managed to gather some 3,000 readers, a small profit and a journalistic reputation before he died in 1860, leaving his paper to his six picturesque, strictly Victorian daughters. They and their descendants, apparently endowed with Founder Wilson's zeal and luck, retained control through years of small prestige, even smaller profit...