Word: gathers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...festivities are official. Cambridge people, beautiful and otherwise, will gather for tailgate picnics before the game, and for other entertainments afterwards. Two perennial party-givers with reputations for attracting people more beautiful than otherwise are Harvard Overseer Maurice Lazarus '37 and Business School professor Ray Goldberg...
...know why we are so determined," says Kyung-Wha. "But our family dislikes anything in between." The habit of toil was instilled early. At home, the children would gather hi one large room in a communal practice for the contests they were encouraged to enter. Myung-Whun, the next to youngest, played his first concerto at seven with the Seoul Philharmonic. Still, he considers himself a "late starter...
...boll weevil, illness and wild fluctuations in the all-important price of cotton. "It's a market price," Shaw explains, "and it's set before you ever try to sell your cotton, and it's set probably before you gin your cotton and before you gather it or grow it or even plant your seed." During Shaw's prime farming years (roughly 1906 to 1932), cotton brought as little as a nickel and as much as 40? a pound...
Even the beggars of Calcutta are better off than the estimated 15 million people now starving in West Bengal. "In the Kutch district of drought-stricken Gujarat," adds Shepherd, "peasants patiently wait for dogs and vultures to finish picking at the carcasses of dead cattle. The hungry gather up the bones and sell them to mills where they are made into bone dust, a kind of fertilizer...
...baptisms--all in Algonquian, the language spoken by the tribes of the sub-Arctic cultural area south and east of the Hudson Bay. Children eat potato chips and play tag in the aisle, baptismal water appears in a peanut butter jar, and everyone, scratching incessantly, squashes blackflies that gather at the window panes. At the wedding of the cheif's son, he and his bride sat in armchairs in front of the altar while wild dogs wandered in and out at will...