Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Much depended on Willkie's own leadership. A sniping campaign, a constant picayune harassment would be a plague to the nation trying to gather itself together for defense. Recognizing that, he declared: "Ours must not be an opposition against-it must be an opposition for . . . a strong America, a productive America...
...this reason candidates are not tied down by any routine or any restrictions such as make miscrable the life of a cub reporter on a metropolitan daily. After he has learned fundamental essentials of news-writing and from, the candidate is on his own to gather choice scoops where he can find them...
...survivors, we can only guess what is happening to them. Vague talk of "Morale" is all that we can gather about Germany and Britain. We are told that the French are starving, but we are told in statistical terms that convey no connotations of human suffering. Belgium, Holland, and Poland we suspect to be wastelands. The latest tragedy, the Rumanian cartilage, has been received in this country with calmness and even with rejoicing...
...following evening followers of both parties may gather round the Union fireside to hear election returns and consume refreshments. Bulletins will be published constantly, and several radios will be provided...
Discussion groups, however, are the most consistently active part of the League's program. Under the direction of members of the Faculty, groups of from eight to twelve gather once a week to investigate the major problems, that face them. One of the most thorough probing conducted was into the workings of the Ghandi passive resistance method; another, a discussion of Clarence Streit's "Union...