Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their cash crop, their "great gift from the Spirit of Heaven." August is the moon of its ripening, the month when the grain turns yellow and the lakes where the wild rice grows look like golden plains. After the ripening comes the moon of the harvest, when the Chippewas gather the rice just as they did when the exploring Franciscan, Father Louis Hennepin, first saw them...
...years white men left the Chippewas in peace to gather the rice and grind it into a rich, tangy meal. Then hunters spread the word that wild rice made good eating with game. Doctors and dietitians prescribed it for dyspeptics and people who were allergic to other cereals. Prices rose (to around $1 per lb., retail, for packaged wild rice). Greedy whites moved into the rice fields of north-central Minnesota, began to push out the Chippewas. Motorboats and rude, unaccustomed hands destroyed the wild plants, breaking nature's cycle of renewal...
While Democrats, tense, baffled and depressed, began to gather at Chicago, Republican Willkie stretched out under a tree beside an artificial lake in Colorado Springs last week, took his shoes off. To a local resident, who apologized for the 92° heat, Mrs. Willkie said reassuringly: "Hot weather makes him lazy and that is just what he needs. I hope he shows signs of increasing laziness...
Quakers abhor intensity of word or deed, believe merely that "the presence of God is an illumination to the soul." When they gather for worship they keep silent, knowing that this "Inner Light" will move them to say what is fitting when it is fitting. (If no one is moved after an hour of quiet, the meeting is over.) Quakers have little ritual, no ordained priesthood. Their societies are organized simply in Preparative Meetings (one or more congregations), Monthly Meetings (one or more Preparative Meetings), Quarterly Meetings (members from several Monthly Meetings), Yearly Meetings (members from several Quarterly Meetings), General...
...Dominion." Last week CBC (which sits in judgment on all Canadian broadcasters) reconsidered, agreed to let Transradio Press continue indefinitely. But CBC still frowns on sponsored news, announced that it will work out a new plan for Dominion stations, outlawing commercial newscasts altogether. Under this plan, CBC will gather dispatches from all three agencies, edit and distribute them to Canadian broadcasters...