Word: gatherings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...challenges nor convinces it with intellectual precision. When he spoke in Lowell Lecture Hall last Friday, his tone was personal and appealing. As he moved slowly through a rambling account of the riots at Berkeley, castigating Kerr for turning the university into a "knowledge factory," he paused frequently to gather his thoughts. When he made a point and saw that the audience was pleased, he would cock his head back and grin. After reciting some story of unfairness by the administration, he suddenly stopped as if disturbed by the monotony of his description and said sharply, "But we shafted...
...said Hoover, "is to gather facts when there is an indication that a federal law has been violated. These facts are presented to the Department of Justice and the department decides whether there will be or will not be a prosecution. An FBI agent is not authorized to pass judgment on the guilt or innocence of a person. He can only gather the facts and let the facts speak for themselves. If he were allowed to become an investigator, judge and jury all in one, then we would have no constitutional law enforcement. We would have a police state...
Making the FBI's job easier by giving them information they could gather anyway is one thing; that alone could be interpreted as the proper way to be polite and cooperative with a federal agency...
...After reading how so many consider Jack O'Brian an Ogre, 1st Class, I feel mighty lucky. After seeing me on a Groucho Marx show, he described me as "a nice colonel," but didn't mention my name. I gather he is seldom generous with either flattery or anonymity, but he was in my case...
...grease that all too rapidly foul the usual hood's charcoal filter. A tiny ion tube of gold alloy releases a stream of negative ions when the hood is turned on, promptly attacking the positive ions in the air, around which the molecules of smoke and cooking odor gather. This precipitates the molecules on an easily washed aluminum filter-releasing fresh, clean air again. In three sizes and colors...