Word: gathers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...today's climate it may actually take more courage and more imagination to become an Eastwood or a Reynolds than it does to be a Nicholson or a Redford. Eastwood-Reynolds films are usually dismissed by critics, rarely play the chic little theaters where the cinéastes gather to read subtitles and subtleties, or get nominated for prizes. If anyone talks about Burt and Clint at all in the better intellectual circles, it is to denounce their macho manners and express fear that their habitual resort to violence poses a continuing threat to the morals of the children and, very...
...religious guidance to college students, have joined U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young, Football Coach Tom Landry and other notables in convoking 800 "national leaders" to a glittering "Congress of the Laity" in Los Angeles next February. The vague forum, devised by wealthy Lay Evangelist Howard Butt Jr., is intended to gather in one place the broadest possible collection of influential people who are at least "open to the leadership of Jesus Christ...
...happened: the one between the Soviets and the Chinese, the Canadian civil war, the invasion of America. The Pentagon buys Dunnigan's games, he says (and presumably plays with his maps and dice and cardboard counters), and so do the CIA and the Soviet embassy. Hobbyists gather every week at the Compleat Strategist, a Manhattan shop specializing in war-game paraphernalia, to play out SPI and Avalon Hill battles with divisions of 25-mm. toy soldiers...
...times don't seem to have nicks, only a lot of existential despair, and it is hard to find a place to hang a plot), Elliott rescues a sinking seaman, who happens to be the sweetheart of Lampie's daughter Nora (Helen Reddy). All of the townspeople gather to drive off greedy Dr. Terminus and to sing a big production number to let Elliott know they think he's an O.K. dragon. Like most of the other big song-and-dance routines, this one offers a good opportunity to line up for more popcorn. Otherwise, Pete...
...extent that by the age of 20 the heart, liver and other organs can be threatened. Looking for a way to remove the excess iron, the Rockefeller scientists turned to bacteria and fungi. In the course of billions of years, these tiny organisms have evolved complex molecules that gather up iron essential for their survival. The researchers developed similar compounds-chelating agents (from the Greek word for claw)- of their own. Injectable chemicals of this kind have been available for some time, but the Rockefeller team hopes their work will lead to an inexpensive oral drug...