Word: gathers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Right began to gather strength from entrepreneurs wary of the inflation and fearful of expropriations. In October 1972, a political strike by entrepreneurs added to the shortages, and the Allende government wavered...
...causes, L.D.F. attorneys were well aware that the death penalty was imposed in the South with disproportionate frequency against black men convicted of raping white women, but it was difficult to prove in court. So in the summer of 1965 a group of students was sent South to gather all possible data from the past 20 years on rape sentencing in various counties of eleven states...
...genial man with a large pipe who liked to gather with friends and translate Icelandic sagas, Tolkien bore all this stoically. He worked away at other books (Silmarillion and Akallabeth, tales about the creation and early history of Middle-earth, to be published posthumously). But he did point out that literal-minded folk who object to fairy stories as escapist mistake the wartime escape of the deserter (bad) for the wartime escape of the prisoner (necessary and good). Fairy tales represent the latter, Tolkien continued, and correspond to the primordial human desire-in a world of poverty, injustice and death...
...tower looks out on a large concrete courtyard, too big for small groups to gather in. Instead, knots of kids gather on the stoops or in a gazebo-like structure in a small play area. Two mangled basketball hoops and a few backless benches fill the deserted concrete space...
...Willa Gather a "minor writer" [Aug. 13]? Unequivocally this places the reviewer, Martha Duffy, in the category of "lost lady": she has befuddled her thinking with today's hollow tomes. Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop has been one of America's most enduring classics...