Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...close to the real thing that it's hard to get an idea of what's going on in the war. About all we can gather here is that our F-51s are flying day and night loaded with rockets, bombs and machine gun bullets. I've been working 15 to 18 hours a day maintaining these airplanes, and when I get a chance to read TIME I feel a little more like a general running this show than a mechanic with a socket wrench in my hand...
...early evening, people began to gather around the rickety Victoria Hotel on the main street of the farming village of La Sarre (pop. 3,100). Soon the Baptists drove in from their little church outside of town. Six men and four women, they gathered on the corner, opened hymn books, and began to sing in French: What Will Wash Away My Sins...
...Paris this week delegates from France, Western Germany, Italy and the Benelux nations gather in the august Salon de I'Horloge of the French Foreign Ministry. Their task is to hammer out an agreement which will give substance to Robert Schuman's bold plan for pooling Western Europe's coal and steel industries. To most of the delegates it means the practical beginning of an undertaking which in the past has been little more than an oratorical flourish: Western Europe's union. But above the hopeful voices in Paris was audible a disturbing buzz-the voice...
...wife and daughters (aged 14 and 16) by his painting. Now he spends his mornings working in his North Side studio, his afternoons prowling the Chicago streets in search of subjects. Setting up his easel on sidewalks or in alleyways, he is used to the curious onlookers that gather, once disposed of a bothersome crowd by filling a big brush with water, swinging it casually over his shoulder to spatter the kibitzers. On cold winter jaunts he protects his hands from the bitter Lake Michigan wind by wearing woolen socks on them while painting...
...West Palm Beach, Fla., county officials, harried by the courthouse pigeons, pondered, decided to spend $5.76 for 36 rubber garter snakes to be placed on the ledge where the pigeons gather...