Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said that thousands of Chinese schoolchildren had been trained in anti-germ warfare: as soon as the alarm is given, the children spread over the countryside and gather up the germ-carrying insects with chopsticks. This was too much even for Britain's pink and gullible New Statesman and Nation, which had itself taken the germ charges seriously. Now it had to admit that they had been "laughed out of court" by the Red Dean's performance...
...East Berlin last week went the intellectual acrobats and performing seals of Communism's traveling peace circus. Two hundred strong, they staged their third meeting of the World Peace Council beneath a Barnum-&-Bailey-sized replica of Picasso's peace dove. And as usually happens when Communists gather under a big tent, the verbal contortionists stole the show...
...gather to offer this message of thinks...
...Cookson had never heard of the missing Musicians. He got the painting at a bargain when the owner died, then let it gather dust in his shop for ten years. After the war, he thrust it on an old customer, a retired British navy surgeon, Captain W. G. Thwaytes. "You can have it for ?200," he told Thwaytes. The captain said he had never paid ?200 for a picture. "Oh, go on," urged Cookson, "have it for ?100 [about $400 at the time]. I'm sure it's a genuine Caravaggio...
...candidates for the Republican nomination only a hot breath apart, South Dakota's primary is indeed important-more important than the 14 delegates involved. The June 3 primary, in which more than 100,000 votes are expected, will be the last Eisenhower-Taft test before the Republicans gather in Chicago on July 7. The aftertaste of South Dakota might affect the first mouth-waterings in Chicago...