Word: gathers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...George and reconciliation. The radicals declared until nearly the last moment that the Colonists wanted only their rights within the British Empire, thus denying the Tories the chance to brand them as extremists who were misleading the people. Counseled Sam Adams: "Wait till the fruit is ripe before we gather...
Next weekend in Puerto Rico, the heads of state of six other major industrial nations−an insistent Canada was invited along with Germany, France, Britain, Italy and Japan−will gather at President Ford's request. The potential domestic political benefit of summitry in his struggle for the Republican presidential nomination has hardly escaped Ford. That, and the Italian elections, probably account for the timing. Whatever the motivation, there is no shortage of real-life problems crying for attention: the economic woes of Britain and Italy and their sagging currencies, the fragmented approach of the industrial nations...
...been an exciting time, but people were glad to gather again in Washington this week...
...suffering from the corrosive breath of materialism, secularism, commercialism and godlessness," cries the Rev. Jaroy Weber of Lubbock, Texas, outgoing president of the Southern Baptist Convention, and this leads to "hunger, inflation, credibility gaps, loose morals, bad government, divorce, drunkenness." But as some 16,000 Southern Baptist messengers gather this week in Norfolk for the 119th convention of the largest Protestant group in the U.S., their spirits are as ebullient as their slogan: LET THE CHURCH STAND UP. As keynote speaker, they corralled the 38th President, Gerald Ford, and more than a few of them expect that the 39th President...
...country's leading black newspaper executives gather in Philadelphia this week for the 36th annual meeting of their National Newspaper Publishers Association, they have a critical question to ponder: Are their enterprises, too, becoming invisible...