Word: gathers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...peril and concerned about the burden he was to the Republican Party. "He was very good." Then almost angrily Bush wondered aloud why that image of an open, intelligent leader was never picked up beyond the White House fence. But Bush, like most of the others who gather round the President, would say no more. The hard specifics of the meeting, the give and take between men that shows how a President's mind works and how policy is made were kept secret...
...first the premise seems perilously cute. The time is "nippy fall, 1973," and the ladies of the "Long Island Masque and Wig Society" gather to run through a rehearsal of their latest production - a musical based on an 1845 play, Fashion; or Life in New York, by Anna Cora Mowatt, who was America's first woman playwright. So this is the 19th century Americana of Mrs. Mowatt's quaint, forgotten classic refracted through the 20th century Americana of suburban matrons in amateur theatricals. Except that the players in Manhattan's McAlpin Rooftop Theater are all totally professional...
...Vanserg center is also rather distinctive in its emphasis on field trips and community-oriented projects. Besides the conventional trips to museums and aquariums, the group goes into the community to gather resources for its projects...
Brooks said that he, like everyone else, was trying to gather information on Maguire's record and would wait to see what the firm does before making any judgments...
...them at that time from the President. Ehrlichman, according to Nixon, did not begin investigating Watergate until March 29. Since the White House concedes that Dean revealed his own role in the cover-up to Nixon on March 21, he would hardly have been the one to appoint to gather additional facts. Who if anyone, asks Weicker, was ordered to handle a stepped-up investigation...