Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard hip enough to gather an audience for Digable Planets?" he asked council members. "No, we're not hip enough to attract an audience of 6,400. We might be hip enough to attract anaudience of 1,000. But that depends on whether ornot the council is hip enough to convince thestudents...
...know where I can get work?" The question echoes from the walls of the St. Francis Center in downtown Los Angeles, where dozens of hungry men, most of them Hispanic and many of them illegals, gather at 7:30 a.m. for a hot meal of rice-and-bean soup before seeking a day's employment. For the past six months, ever since he arrived in L.A., Luis M., 36, has taken his morning nourishment at the soup kitchen and then wandered over to a street corner in the garment district, where a strong back can earn around...
...stated purpose of the scheme was to help one of the Venezuelan general's agents win the confidence of Colombia's drug lords. It would also help the CIA and the DEA gather crucial information about the cartel's methods. But Grimm refused to cooperate. As she later told 60 Minutes: "I really take great exception to the fact that 1,000 kilos came in funded by U.S. taxpayer money." Besides, said DEA agents, they already had enough information about the Medellin cartel's activities. They did not need a "cockamamie" scheme to distribute tons of drugs to gain...
...upstages the novel's principals: the lovely Miyuki; her husband Imperial Navy Lieut. Kiyoshi Serikawa; and his longtime buddy Cotton Drake, an Episcopal missionary raised in Japan. Kiyoshi is ordered to Honolulu to gather intelligence, and back in Japan his wife and best friend fall chastely in love. Cotton also catches wind of Tokyo's plans and becomes an amateur...
...past two years, that's meant having Thanksgiving at Harvard, which is as much fun as home ever was. My first year, we had about two dozen Southern Californians gather in the common room of Canaday Hall for a full-dress Thanksgiving dinner...