Word: gathers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fact that we are trying to respond quickly creates problems," he said. "We haven't had time to gather a large group of volunteers and we don't have comprehensive lists of Jewish students...
Money Pie. One could throw up one's hands at all this were not so many lives and careers being disrupted. To the layman, the performing arts constitute an often incomprehensible world, but never so much as when management and labor gather to divvy up the shrinking money pie. As much as anything else, the problem stems from a scale of values and priorities that the cultural community has allowed to go haywire...
...seeking a restraining order to block any such testimony. It presumably will ask District Judge Walter E. Hoffman, who was appointed to oversee the Maryland grand jury's work, for the order. Even if the jury does not seek to indict Agnew, and its proceedings are designed to gather evidence for transmittal to the House, the Agnew lawyers will contend that this unprecedented action would be a breach of the Constitution's separation of power between the branches of Government...
...amount in 1968. Actually, Freidin says, he was a double agent or maybe even a triple one. He told the Humphrey people in 1968 and the McGovern staff last year that he was working on a campaign book. While feeding information to the Republicans, he was really trying to gather material for an "inside" book about internal friction in the G.O.P. camp. He sees no distinction between what he did and the ploy used by Joe McGinniss in 1968. McGinniss worked as a Republican campaign staffer while secretly doing research for The Selling of the President 1968, a tough...
This is a cold, autumnal book. The question is never deemed worth asking, whether this life was worth living. There is nothing here of the noble Willa Gather nostalgia for a Nebraska full of giants, or the facile Hemingway nostalgia for a Michigan of pliant girls and truly good trout. By the time Floyd is murdered for his watch, he has swollen into a huge and lonely figure. His death can stand for that of the white man's America, or of the whole human race. He never has had much use for that latter one anyway...