Word: gatherings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...days last week, the U.N. had some of the air of a political convention. Delegates lobbied and logrolled to gather votes as 19 candidates competed for five seats on the International Court of Justice - the World Court that meets in The Hague as mankind's highest tribunal...
Then came unmistakable signs of apathy among the Democratic rank and file. Two weeks ago, the party nominee, Lieutenant Governor Paul Johnson, appeared on statewide television to whoop it up before Democrats who were supposed to gather in large numbers at the state's 82 county courthouses. But few turned up, and many of them wandered away in the middle of Johnson's speech...
Your Oct. 4 story is calumniatory to the Yellowstone bear. We suspect the Russian bear is toothless, clawless, sexless and brainwashed into its anthropomorphic antics. Yellowstone unregimented bears gather along the roadside midsummer time to enjoy the free performance of nearly two million park visitors, biting very few considering the expanse of toothsome human epidermis proffered daily. Our bears are indignant at your slander...
They hauled the commander of an artillery group out of bed, told him to gather a score of trustworthy men and arrest Lacerda at 6:15 a.m. as he began an official visit to a state hospital near Rio. If Lacerda resisted, shoot to kill-without fear of consequences. If taken alive, Lacerda supposedly was to be bundled aboard a plane at Rio's International Galeao Airport and flown to a secret destination. The artillery officer refused, saying that he needed a written order from his commander. Pinheiro and Mafra next went to the commander of a paratroop regiment...
When they gather to consider which cases to review-perhaps 30 or 35 out of a record submission of 613 this summer-the justices shake hands all around to symbolize their unity of purpose. They sit at the conference-room table with Chief Justice Earl Warren at the head and Hugo Black, most senior in length of service, at the other end. No one else is permitted in the room while the court is deliberating. If someone knocks at the door, it is opened by the junior justice, now Arthur Goldberg. The justices come to the conference prepared with...