Word: gathering
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...billowing frocks she graces the lawn, and crowds gather about her doorstep at dusk. Who is she? How do you get to know her? What did she come here for, anyway? How does she spend her time, where does she eat, what does she do for recreation and exercise...
...husky Kentuckian said to me yesterday: "I'm getting concerned about the future of this country. And I'm worrying because I'm not doing anything about it. I've been telling myself to pick up rubber around the house or to gather up the scrap metal I know is around my place, but I don't do it. And the folks around me aren't doing much either. But damn it, a man doesn't know which way to turn...
Lieutenant-Commander Samuel Eliot Morison, U. S. N. has arrived in England to gather material for a historical record of naval operations in this war. Commander Morison is on leave from his post as Professor of History at Harvard...
Explanation. In Brooklyn, two holdup men tried to rob deaf Abraham Markowitz of $200. He shouted. They shouted. People began to gather. The bandits fled without the money...
...runs the New York Post" (38-year-old Dorothy Schiff Backer). Senators Wheeler and Nye denounced the Post's exposé as a "diabolical attempt" to smear all isolationists. Senator Nye said he knew for a fact that "a secret society" had been operating for two years to gather smear material...