Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...believers pledged to use their own money and labor for renovations. Even so, prospects look dim. "They're afraid that if they open a church for us, they'll have to start opening churches all across the country," said Petition Organizer Benjamin Kozulin. Attempts are made to gather signatures in church grounds, but church employees who owe their jobs to the government break up the crowds and chase away the petitioners. When Kozulin and fellow church members made a similar effort a decade ago, he was threatened with imprisonment in a lunatic asylum and nine organizers lost their...
...every day for the two and a half weeks that we organized at Sam Andrews. Each morning I got up at 3:45 a.m., arrived at the office in Lamont at 4:30 a.m. We received our assignments for the day, what crew to cover, what information to gather and by 5 a.m. headed out to Sam Andrews Ranch to be there when the workers began to arrive. At first we needed to have authorization cards signed--when more than 50 per cent of the workers at peak season sign a card, the union can file for an election...
...Newfoundlands plunging into Pennsylvania's Lake Harmony carrying a life preserver to a "victim," or towing a boat along the shore, were re-enacting their breed's tasks of another century. Newfoundland fishermen used the dogs to gather nets spread in rich offshore fishing grounds. With a double coat similar to an otter's, the dogs withstood long exposure in the icy waters. Newfs are also strong swimmers whose webbed front paws arc out in a powerful breast stroke: no ministroke dog paddle for these canines. In the 19th century, it was rare to find a sailing...
...ethics and finances and public services. Today that privilege is under widespread attack. Consumer groups, the courts, congressional committees, dissident lawyers and even recipients of legal services are challenging the bar's traditional methods of doing business. As some 8,500 members of the American Bar Association gather in Chicago this week for the bar's 100th annual convention, delegates will address themselves to a broad range of new challenges and conditions. Among them...
...earn their keep on a race track. Fully 65%, in fact, are high-priced, slow-footed dreams deferred that will retire without a single trip to the post. But if the pie is quite high in the sky, the tax shelters are very down to earth, so the wealthy gather every July in Keeneland and Lexington for the Keeneland and Fasig-Tipton Select Summer Yearling Sales. Dripping jewels and dropping the names of noble bloodlines-both human and equine-they have spent nearly $35 million this year on 623 unnamed, untried colts and fillies...