Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more aggressive labor leaders, the American Federation of Labor has long seemed as limp as a well-chewed cigar. In 1938, after John L. Lewis led the C.I.O. out of the A.F.L., he said his new union "has made it perfectly safe for the A.F.L. to come along and gather up the butcher and the baker and the candle-stickmaker ... All they need to do is trail along . . . behind the C.I.O. and we will keep the wind off them...
...Arabs, who lost their land to the Israelis, last week got it back-symbolically. Reviving the ancient tradition of shemittah, or sabbatical year ("And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof: But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still"- Exodus, 23:10-11), Israeli rabbis turned over all the Jewish land to an Arab for the new Jewish year which starts Oct. 1. The land transfer has no legal standing...
...feet. As chairman of the Appropriations subcommittee which had pored over the bill for twelve weeks, he would be the first to agree that there might be waste, said O'Mahoney unctuously. "But I should not like to have any person reading the Congressional Record tomorrow morning gather from what my friend from Illinois has said that the men in uniform . . . are willfully making more mistakes than those which are made by all human beings...
Such drink-and-gape spots are not as numerous as the ordinary bars, however. At these oases maturer individuals--chiefly indigenous to the Square--gather nightly for the serious business of drinking...
...Buenos Aires this week, Juan and Eva Perón braced themselves to lend an ear to the voice of history, look fate in the eye and shake destiny by the hand. The stage was set for at least 2,000,000 Argentines to gather in a vast, "spontaneous" outpouring, and demand that Juan and Eva run for President and Vice President, respectively, in the November presidential elections...