Word: gathers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Classics, a basketball team for Harvard undergraduates who feel they lack either the time or talent for the varsity program, started last November to gather support for the trip by writing to congressmen...
...book progresses, stereotypes of pale children, bearded old men and worried mothers in babushkas step aside for anarchists who gather on Yom Kippur to dance, eat and sing La Marseillaise "and other hymns against Satan." Gangster Arnold Rothstein makes it all the way from Hester Street to F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby as the underworld character Meyer Wolfsheim. Outside New York, Jewish peddlers roam the South, and Jewish farmers plow as far away as Oregon. There are even Jewish cowboys of a sort. Writing home from Kansas, one incipient blazing saddler complains that...
Jerusalem has an understandable worry. The Nazareth election could encourage Israel's 400,000 Arab citizens (12% of the total population), who are now fragmented among several Jewish-led parties, to gather together in a single political organization and thus possibly exert real power at the polls for the first time. With this prospect in mind, some unhappy officials in Jerusalem are already pondering the question in St. John in the New Testament: "Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth...
Nonetheless, the U.S., along with other First World nations, concedes that there is a real grievance behind the angry rhetoric. This week representatives of both rich and poor states will gather in Paris for a conference that could launch a lengthy review of the complex policies affecting world trade, energy and economic development...
Whitlock said last night that a committee of students should gather names, and then compose a list of about twenty-five likely candidates. A similar process would be followed by the Senior Common Room...