Word: gathers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cope with the problem. For example, there could be a United Nations-sponsored international birth control program, an expansion of fertilizer production, and the storing of adequate food reserves as a buffer against periodic poor harvests. Members of the United Nations hope to consider those proposals when they gather in Bucharest during August for a conference on population, and in Rome in November for a conference on food. Their task is formidable. Between now and the time they begin their deliberations, the world's population will have increased by 30 million...
...poorest taste award" went to the raft "Quivering Thigh," whose crew, in a last-minute effort to gather poorest taste points, exposed themselves to spectators standing on the Weeks Bridge...
...schoolers had to gather their strength for the final in a short, 15-minute rest after an exciting overtime win in their semifinal game with Charles River...
...afternoons around 3:30, Joe ("Green") Verdi, Angelo ("Foots") Colombo, John ("Detroit") Agresti and other properly and not-so-properly nicknamed neighborhood men gather at Rose's Tavern for a glass of beer from the 7-ft. wooden cooler. Then they drift out back toward the grape arbor for a game of boccie. On Wednesdays, Amelia Garavaglia, 76, flours her plump, competent hands in the back room of Gioia's Corner Market and begins rolling out 5,000 ravioli for sale hi the front room. Each evening, Ida Galli switches on the spotlight hi her front yard...
...smokers this year, but other city and state governments will probably pass similar bills soon, which will put more pressure on Massachusetts. In New York City this Thursday, the Board of Health will vote on a plan to segregate smokers from non-smokers whenever more than 25 people gather in public. In an editorial last Saturday, The New York Times supported the proposal, saying it would "help liberate non-smokers from the tyranny of those who indiscriminately pollute the air of public places in disregard of the health and comfort of others...