Word: regrouping
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...companions, that are out of joint. "The crowding together of masses of people in uninhabitable big cities will, sooner or later, provoke a return to the country," he says. "The survivors of cataclysms soon to come, caused by the hand of man, will oblige humanity to regroup itself for a simple, natural, peaceful and wise life. So we shall have had a head start on humanity...
Equally clear is a disadvantage: the clerical headache. At first, Rollins thought teachers could use a computer to regroup the whole school every ten weeks. In practice, no suitable computer could be found, and the job takes up to six weeks of human labor. Luckily, bright teacher-wives are available at the naval base to form a staff equal...
What alarmed U.N. officials most was a report that the unruly soldiers might regroup and head back toward Stanleyville. Word now had reached the maraud ers that their erstwhile chief, Antoine Gizenga. was under house arrest by Adoula's Central Government forces; the unpredictable soldiers just might decide to wage a last-ditch battle on his behalf. In case they did, a U.N. airplane flew up to Stanleyville to transfer Gizenga to Leopoldville. There the rebel was not yet under formal arrest; for the moment he was living under guard in an apartment at U.N. headquarters in the capital...
After the deciding vote on the resolution, debate resumed. Michael Hornblow '62, sponsor of the motion, asked for a recess to regroup his forces. When the meeting re-opened, a quorum was called since much of the large crowd had left. The first count was 19, the minimum needed to do business. Phillips asked for another call, however, and when only 18 members answered he declared the meeting adjourned...
...SILVER BACCHANAL (305 pp )Rene Fü;p-Miller-Atheneum ($4.50). Somewhere, some time, in southeastern Europe, the remnants of a beaten army shuffle into the city of Drohitz there to regroup before facing an unidentified enemy once more. These are the same weary, mud-stained troops who fought a hopeless battle for a useless hill in Allegorist Fü;p-Miller's The Night of Time, May 9, 1955); and to them Drohitz is something more than a well-fed peasant town. It is the focus of their tront-lme dreams, a city of dazzling peacetime...