Word: gathers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...middle class was transplanted largely intact to Miami, so were the island's language and culture. Today the city has four radio stations and a television station that broadcast in Spanish, as well as a score of Spanish-language newspapers and magazines. Well-to-do Cubans gather daily at the Big Five Club (initiation fee per family: $2,000), a country club made up of members of five of pre-Castro Havana's most prestigious clubs. Bowntown at the American Club, members of the Cuban-American business establishment meet for lunch and a friendly game of cubilete (dice...
...success of The Waltons has created a new television genre that might be termed extended family entertainment. These are shows that encourage the members of the modern nuclear family (all 3.4 of them) to gather round the electronic hearth and envy the lot of the poorer but more populous rural families of yesteryear. The prairie families are envisioned by television as infinitely more caring, more loving and free of neurosis than we dare hope to be. Pop, who is nearly always out of work and thus has a lot of time on his hands, is always willing to explain anything...
That evidently was not the intent of Congress in creating the CIA and giving it almost complete autonomy to safeguard its secrecy. Originally the agency's principal task was to gather intelligence and keep the Government informed about other countries, particularly the Communist nations...
...adherence to ideological orthodoxy, whether Confucian or Communist. Ironically, the methods used to overthrow the old system are reminiscent of past methods. The Red Guards of the Cultural Revolution had their prototypes in the antiforeign Boxers of the 19th century. In Confucian times, too, crowds of villagers used to gather to hear mandatory lectures on ethics...
...Cross was sailing by the Americas Cup bouy long before Courageous was towed out by its tender two hours before the 12:10 start of the race. The Cross was followed about by her tender and watched with curiosity by the then-small spectator fleet that had begun to gather near the starting line. She even received a rousing round of applause from the 80-or-so paying spectators as she tacked next to the Coast Guard Cutter Vigilant, which patrolled the boundary of the race course...