Word: gatherings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...promised her perpetual protection for the monastery he was building. Eventually, about 80 monks joined him to complete Great Lavra. Today the monastic population is about 2,000, divided into cenobites, who live, work and pray together, and idiorrhythmic monks, who have tiny cottages and apartments and gather only for the Divine Liturgy in church and common meals on great feasts...
...into union with Rome. The third (1534-49) was a reformer of sorts who gave his own son and nephews cardinalates, yet also convoked the great Council of Trent. The fourth (1555-59) was an unlamented inquisitor, who boasted: "Even if my own father were a heretic, I would gather the wood to burn him." The fifth (1605-21) was also a rigid doctrinaire, who fought bitterly with the anticlericals of his time...
...Jesuit preachers to conduct Billy Graham-style crusades on Milan's streets, and in a city with more than 1,000 churches, added at least ten each year -primarily in the new suburbs. For Montini, the missionary task was to conquer through Christian love those "unhappy ones who gather behind Marx," to reassure them that, as Jesus "still loves them strongly, immensely, divinely," so the church supports "the profound need for a new and worthwhile life that is hidden in their souls...
...Northerners, principally through our newspapers, gather the impression that every Southerner is ignorant, an oppressor and a bigot, while we are tolerant and understanding. We are patting ourselves on the back without justification. While discrimination against the Negro in the South is of an overt nature, here it lurks stealthily underground, and it is concealed by our hypocritical behavior...
...Kennedy campaign to gather Negro votes was spectacularly successful. By statisticians' reckonings, Nixon got more non-Negro votes than Kennedy. Kennedy's margin of victory derived from his lopsided majorities in Negro districts. Negro votes accounted for his capture of at least three close states, New Jersey, Illinois and Michigan. If Nixon had carried those states, he would have been elected President...