Word: gatherings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perhaps. But Russia's dictator did have his share of quirks. He hated to go out in public, he said, because crowds would gather and applaud "with mouth open, the fools." He pouted when he saw wives of Soviet officials in foreign dress. He complained, "I can't breathe in here," when he smelled perfume in a room. After his eldest son, Yasha, bungled a suicide attempt, Stalin shouted: "Missed, you great fool!" He slapped Svetlana twice across the face when, at 17, she fell in love with a middle-aged Jewish dramatist. His spies trailed her when...
Coles has visited Hartford, New York, and San Francisco repeatedly to gather data on ghetto children to compare with his Roxbury findings. He also became familiar with Cleveland's ghetto while preparing a study in 1966 for the city's civil rights commission. He lived in the South seven years studying the problems of rural Negroes...
...incumbent on the Congress to provide the Bureau of the Census, the National Center of Health Statistics, the Bureal of Labor Statistics and such other agencies as are concerned, with the funds necessary to obtain a full enumeration of all groups in the population, and also to gather the usual information on special and economic characteristics that is necessary to implement the laws of the nation...
...Conference is impressed with the extent to which improvements in close-out procedures (Close-out procedures determine the number of calls an enumerator must make at a particular household in an attempt to gather information. If no information can be gathered after the specified number of calls, characteristics of the household are allocated by a computer) and procedures for following back to apparently vacant housing units may contribute to the reduction of under-enumeration. We put high priority, therefore, on changes in procedures and in allocation of resources that promise an improvement in this area...
Every Christian is expected to gather with others "...to praise God, to hear his Word for mankind, to baptize and to join in the Lord's Supper, to pray for and present the world to him in worship, to enjoy fellowship, to receive instruction, strength, and comfort, to order and organize (the church's) corporate life, to be tested, renewed, and reformed, and to speak and act in the world's affairs as may be appropriate to the needs of the time...