Word: gathers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From the panhandlers and hare krishna drummers outside the Coop to bell-bottomed young professionals lunching upstairs at Barney's, from the little old ladies shopping for bedspreads at Woolworth's to the tight little knots of blue coliar workers who gather at Whitney's every night for a beer after work. Cambridge probably has as varied a population as any other six square miles in the country...
...Could you please explain to me why the National Youth Science Camp, where 100 of the nation's brightest male students gather [July 17], is for boys only? If West Virginia really wants to improve its backward image, it had better start preparing an answer to that question...
Among the record 10,000 or so competitors from 123 countries who will gather in Munich this month to celebrate the XX Olympiad of the modern era, there doubtless will be another Biwott. Maybe more than one-which is only one reason why predicting Olympic gold medalists is an uncertain sport. Besides the unknowns who surprise, there are always well-regarded but erratic competitors capable of once-in-a-lifetime feats...
...every recent national convention, literary superstars were on hand to gather impressions, mostly for publication later in magazines. Norman Mailer refused to tell anyone what he thought of the proceedings for fear of compromising a forthcoming article in LIFE. Novelist William Styron and Playwright Arthur Miller, on assignment from Esquire, agreed that Miami Beach '72 would be harder to write about than Chicago '68, which Styron covered for the New York Review of Books and Miller attended as a delegate. Also observing for Esquire were Soviet Journalist Guenrikh Borovik, who felt "the world does not need this much...
Like many another evangelical Christian, Kenneth Taylor liked to gather his family round him after dinner in their Wheaton, Ill., farmhouse for evening prayer and a bit of Bible reading. The trouble was, Taylor observed some years ago, that his children could not quickly grasp the archaic English of the King James Bible. An ordained minister who was then director of the fundamentalist Moody Press in Chicago, Taylor decided to try paraphrasing the Scriptures for his youngsters-an experiment to which the children-then numbering nine-quickly responded...