Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...army on the march! . . . One hundred and twenty thousand strong, marching one by one during the month of April to millions of city homes and country farms-catting on you at your door, and yours, and yours-to gather vital information that enables you to know your nation! One half as large as the standing army of the United States, this is the peacetime army of census takers. . . . You can't know your country unless your country knows...
...Pocomoke City, George Selby, another Negro, was picked up. Mindful of the nearby Princess Anne lynching in 1933, officers whisked Selby over the county line. Rumor flew that he had been jailed at Snow Hill too. Outside the little red brick building a mob began to gather. "Turn the damn niggers over to us!" they yelled. They pushed over a fence, surged up and pounded on the door...
...professional anthropologists and race historians-had even heard of the Szeklers before last week. But according to Hungarian papers, these poor people, who are of purest Magyar stock, were taking a pitiful mauling from the barbaric Rumanians. Thirty-six Szekler boys, whose innocent pleasure it was to gather and chat studiously about Hungarian arts and literature, were rounded up and "put through the third degree by the Rumanian police and mistreated in such a cruel way that some of them were left unconscious." Many others were arrested and mistreated for nothing more than possessing arms. Everyone in Central Europe, protested...
...three Cs and a D in his studies. Most inviolable tradition: Once a Porcellian always a Porcellian. Porkies keep up their Porkie friendships all their lives, go back religiously to the annual Porkie banquet at which new members are initiated. When a Porkie marries, fellow Porkies always gather round him after the ceremony and sing the club song. From the Pore's clubrooms, non-Porcellians are religiously excluded. In the last 20 years only five men have been excepted from this rule: the Prince of Wales, Al Smith, Herbert Hoover, under Secretary of the Treasury Roswell Magill and onetime...
Ever since the Russian invasion of Finland began, citizens of Moscow, Idaho (pop. 5,500) have been restive about their town's name. When the Indians used to go to this fertile valley at the foot of the Thatuna Hills to gather camas roots, they called the place Tat-Kin-Mah, which means the land of the spotted deer. First white settlers called it Paradise, and Paradise Valley it remained until 1876, when President Grant named the post office Moscow. Because there was a good deal of U. S. sympathy for Russia in the Crimean War, there were...