Word: gathers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...candidates running on his party's ticket. (He did not name any Democrats whom he did not intend to endorse.) Derisively, Stevenson described the Taft-Eisenhower meeting (see above) as "the first time that the vanquished has dictated the peace terms to the victor." Said he: "I gather that the Republican progressives who fought so hard for the general at Chicago are wondering what has become of the 'great crusade...
...cruiser) brought on an intra-fleet rhubarb. A Russian sub (H.M.S. Taciturn) got through the destroyer screen and promptly claimed hits on four carriers, but the umpires (on the surface ships) ruled her sunk. Such differences will be resolved when the two-week exercise is finished and the commanders gather in Oslo for a review. Meanwhile, "sunken" carriers and subs fight...
...Composers' Conference and Chamber Music Center at Bennington, Vt., where about 50 composers and instrumentalists gather for two weeks in August to play for each other and the public...
...hundreds of Egyptian villages, such stories from Akhbar el Yom are read by one literate person to dozens of illiterates who gather around in regularly formed groups called "reading rings." The papers are understandable to even the simplest fellah because the Amins and their staff have developed a clear, simple Arabic style that is already being imitated all over the Middle East. They live up to their boast that "Akhbar el Yom helps you" by supplying free legal help to readers, and pay their staff the highest newspaper wages in the Middle East...
Truman, who had cooled somewhat on Stevenson, let it be known that he thought Barkley would be a good candidate. The Barkley boom began to gather surprising momentum-until it was knocked on the head by organized labor. The labor leaders who exercise a veto ("Clear everything with Sidney") on major Democratic decisions, did not object to Barkley on factional grounds. They simply decided that his age (74) made him a difficult candidate to sell to union members...