Word: gatherings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only knight-errant; in one year alone, the Crusaders counted the aid of 13,000 camp followers in their quest for the Holy Sepulcher. In World War I, they were the vivandieres; in Saigon today, the B-girls are called tea girls. Wherever two or three soldiers gather together, prostitutes are sure to flock, adding to the disorder that follows in the wake of armies everywhere...
...hothouse flower, protected and indulged during his first 17 years, blossoms into a full-time professional pianist at 18. Only 200 people -most of them admitted free - attend his first concert. At the second, there are more paying customers. The third is a sellout. The career and the reputation gather velocity but not money. Vladimir is paid with bread, sausages, clothing; he is, literally, the family breadwinner...
Columnist Harry Golden once jokingly suggested that Jewish leaders gather in Jerusalem to issue a declaration exonerating Christians from their crimes against Judaism. More seriously, Rabbi Arthur Gilbert of B'nai B'rith's Anti-Defamation League feels that Jews must indeed be prepared to recognize that neither all Christians nor Christianity itself is responsible for the anti-Semitism of the past. He also warns that a condition of true dialogue is for Christians to forsake their "patronizing attitude" that the Jews are "a fossilized people who now must wander through time awaiting that moment...
...collided with a jet tanker in their skies last Jan. 17. Ever since, hundreds of airmen, many in Martian masks and protective clothing, had scoured the countryside collecting the remains of the three bombs (two burst open on impact) that fell on land. Air Force generals even helped gather more than 1,600 tons of slightly contaminated topsoil* for burial in the nuclear-waste plot of Aiken...
With Ford Foundation money, Chicago's U.S. District Court got the National Defender Project to start an "intern at law" program last fall. Now, two-student teams from six Chicago law schools report daily to the federal courthouse, help determine prisoners' indigency, gather evidence, interview witnesses, prepare motions, huddle with the defender at the trial, and are given an opportunity to question the judge...