Word: gathering
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...when she went on calls with her father into the bush, where people would gather before sunrise to await them, Teresa saw what were the grim realities of life for most people in the country. To swim at dawn or dusk was to risk malaria; the slightest malady, left untreated, could become a death sentence. And she knew the menacing side of even a privileged existence under a dictatorship. Her father wouldn't let his criticisms of the government's repressive economic and racial policies go beyond the family dinner table. She went away to college in South Africa, where...
Dissembling and stalling by local governments have already allowed the pathogen to spread in Asia--not only in birds but also among the men and women who raise them for a living and the kids who gather eggs or simply kick up infected dust in their villages. "If I had known about the bird flu," says Roongroj Boontang, the uncle who allowed Kaptan Boonmanuj to play with his fighting roosters, "my nephew would still be alive." --Reported by Andrew Perrin/Ben Ya Pad, Karl Taro Greenfeld and Bryan Walsh/Hong Kong and David Bjerklie/New York
...lots of sex and nakedness--that they think might be fun to make in their parents' apartment. After the clueless mother and father depart on vacation, the kids shed their duds, their inhibitions and such political consciousness as they have. The demirevolution of the spring of 1968 begins to gather riotous force outside their windows while they play mainly degrading sexual games indoors. Eventually they find themselves eating garbage. Eventually Isabelle flirts with suicide. Eventually a revolutionary rock, tossed through their window, awakens the dreamers from their dream, and the French pair is last glimpsed throwing Molotov cocktails...
...lapse,” Whitman said. “But then, when he gets his act together, sometimes it makes you feel better about it because rolling over someone doesn’t prove to me or to anyone who’s watching that you know how to gather your thoughts and start all over again...
Just after 6 a.m. on election day, eleven Edwards supporters gather in their office in Londonderry, N.H., to make the final push in a campaigning effort that has consumed their last few weeks...