Word: gathers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week, on the 50th anniversary of his death, Benefactor Verdi's guests will pay their special respects to his memory. Wearing the simple costume Verdi prescribed for them-the men, black suits, string ties and soft wide-brimmed hats, the women, plain, dark grey dresses-they will gather in the Casa's open courtyard, lay flowers on the tomb where Verdi and his wife Giuseppina lie buried. At night, those still able to go to La Scala may sit in the royal box for a performance of Verdi's Requiem...
There's no such animal, as a professional track man, so the world's top runners, jumpers, and weight-tossers retain their amateur standing and gather periodically to show off their skills...
When the scout bee enters the hive, he says, it climbs to a section of comb and starts a stylized dance. Other bees gather around, caressing the scout with their touch-and-smell antennae. The scout bee's odor, picked up from the flower it has robbed, tells them what sort of flower they should look...
...saddened mountain climbers remembered and adopted as their own a motto they had seen written in English over a schoolhouse at Dhankuta in remote Nepal. It said inspiringly: "Gather courage-don't be a chickenhearted fellow...
...land between the living and the dead-are a trio of business-suited bureaucrats in a chain of command that goes on into infinity. The role of the avenging Bacchantes, who tore Orpheus apart in the ancient myth, is now taken by a seedy bunch of envious poets who gather in what looks like Paris' Café de Flore. When characters shuttle between this life and the next, they glide through mirrors-Cocteau's favorite symbol of the doorway to death ("Look at yourself in a mirror all your life, and you will see death at work like...