Word: gathers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Camp Three paid heavily for their "hostile attitude." They had almost no medical care, and their food was bad and wormy. They labored long and hard, climbing up mountains to gather wood, digging ditches, tending fields. Some, like Conte, squatted for months in "the hole," a tiny cell in which a prisoner could not stand or lie down. "My biggest worry was that I was going to lose my mind in there," said Conte. "Then I learned to keep my mind a blank for hours on end, and somehow I didn't go nuts...
...short distance from the runway, a 240-watt searchlight circles slowly, its narrow beam arcing day and night across the base of low-lying clouds. Only 200 feet away, a parabolic mirror points overhead to gather the searchlight's reflected glow and focus it on a photoelectric cell. As the clouds rise or fall, reflections vary. In the radio shack, remote-reading indicators record the angle at which the searchlight beam bounces back. Measuring cloud height is then a matter of simple trigonometry...
Nazi regulations for more than a handful of people to gather in any one place, but the 100 or more who dropped in to watch Audrey were circumspect, and the Nazis never found...
...Hill. The local Nazi commander called in the mayor and told him to ring the church bell at 7 o'clock the next morning-the signal for all villagers to gather...
...Funerals. In merriment-minded Tehuantepec, any pretext for a party goes; the commonest is a wedding. By custom, after the newlyweds retire, celebrators gather outside the bridal chamber, drinking and shouting broad sallies at the groom. Later, when he comes out to greet the crowd, firecrackers explode and an all-night fiesta starts. Scarcely less gay are wakes and funerals (where a favored dirge is the tune of Yes, We Have No Bananas). There are 21 scheduled community fiestas a year in the town...