Word: gathers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Knock. The D.C. crime bill puts heavy emphasis on strengthening police power to gather evidence. The Fourth Amendment guarantees a person's right to be "secure" against "unreasonable searches and seizures." But what is reasonable? The measure would expand police authority to use bugs and wiretaps against suspected drug pushers, violence-prone radicals, bribers and blackmailers. Critics insist the measure's inclusive language might permit scrutiny of the traditionally privileged conversations between lawyers and clients, doctors and patients, or priests and penitents. Under another provision, policemen could enter private homes without knocking if they had reason to believe...
...water. Women began appearing on that once all-male mode of transport, the freight car. A petty thief, lacking a gun for a sudden job, knew that corruption was so rampant that he could borrow the needed weapon from a cop on patrol. At farm foreclosure sales, friends would gather, bid 10? for every item, scare others out of bidding more, then give everything back to the farmer. And in his mother's hotel, Terkel, then in his teens, sensed that the Depression had set in for keeps when he noticed the increased wear on the cards and checkerboards...
...Heath will face the challenge of healing Britain's race problem while the racist oratory of Enoch Powell echoes in his ears. Some Britons believe that the country's race tension will subside as immigrants become more anglicized and bettereducated. Many sociologists are convinced, however, that the crisis will gather for the next decade or two as the sons of ill-educated colored immigrants graduate from British schools and start to compete with whites for higher-paying jobs. "The crux of the matter is whether we can provide jobs for those educated under the British system," says Heath. "The present...
...proposal said that workers should be dealt with through their union leadership. It advocated working from the top down: "where official union endorsement is forth-coming this should be publicized by the anti-war movement in literature designed for distribution at plant gates and places where workers gather." The SMC cited anti-war demonstrations held by the trade union movement in the aftermath of Cambodia. They saw this development as "a break with AFL-CIO President George Meaney's policy of abject support...
...with bankers, setting up separate enterprises. Complaining of internal dissension, Cornfeld pointed to "those maniacal guys on the board." Cornfeld still has about 15% of the company's stock, and, like Napoleon trying to come back from Elba, he has been jetting from country to country, seeking to gather proxies from his sales managers for a triumphal return to power...