Word: gathers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...swipes kids." Separating child from family is always a horrifying and legally difficult matter. "It's like being a member of the Gestapo," says Belisle. "As bad as you know the parents are, there they stand, in the doorway, screaming 'I love my child.' The neighbors gather, whispering and pointing. The mother starts calling you four-letter words. You may be helping the kid in the long run, but it's a nightmare for any child...
...farmers rush to gather in a bin-busting harvest, their fortunes have improved. The prices that farmers received averaged 23% higher in September than a year earlier, while the prices they paid for tools, fertilizer and consumer goods?including food?rose only 10%. Most crops have been bountiful enough this year to cause even retail food prices to level off after a frightening winter-spring rise. The Department of Agriculture predicts record 1978 crops of corn, soybeans, hay and fall potatoes. Corn is so abundant that Midwestern farmers are storing it on streets, playgrounds and tennis courts...
THEN THE SERIOUS stuff begins, as the Boston rock press and assorted groupies from punks to spaceshots gather between the boxing ring and Peter, who starts, "Oh wow, man, look at this...looks like I'm back home...(wriggles back, sticks out his tongue and rolls his hollow eyeballs out from a thin, benny-worn face) spaced out again...
President Carter will speak in Lynn City Hall Square this afternoon to campaign for Democratic candidates seeking state-wide offices, while demonstraters, including some Harvard students, gather to protest administration policy in South Africa...
...extraordinary telescope, unlike other reflectors, does not use a single primary eye on the sky. Instead, it has six main mirrors, ,JS each with a diameter of 1.8 meters (72 in.). Arrayed in a circle and directing their light on a common focus to produce a single image, they gather as much light as a traditional 4.5-meter (176-in.) instrument. Thus, the so-called Multiple-Mirror Telescope is exceeded only by Palomar's 5-meter (200-in.) mirror and the new Soviet 6-meter (240-in.) telescope...