A couple of weeks earlier I had heard a Marine colonel on the planning staff tell how the guns would hammer the pillboxes, leaving only a few stunned defenders for the Infantry to gather up on their way through to positions inland.
BEYOND the China offerings gathered up here on Analects, we publish a China section every week in The Economist.
IN ADDITION to the China-related offerings gathered up here on Analects, we publish a China section each week in the print edition of The Economist.
IN ADDITION to the China-related gleanings gathered up here on Analects, we publish a China section each week in the print edition of The Economist.
While Lt. Gov. James Aiona Jr. of Hawaii announced that he was going shopping at Century 21, other delegates gathered up fliers on tour-bus rides, Broadway plays and the Rockettes.
Recently we wrote about OutGrow.me, a site that has gathered up information on succesfully funded projects that then routes users to pages where the products can be purchased.
One Enron employee who insisted on not being identified said that on Friday the company had gathered up the shredders on each floor of its headquarters and put them into sealed-off areas, but that the machines had not been removed from the building.
Human and animal droppings were gathered up and spread on fields as fertiliser.
Running down to the crowd, with a grin plastered across his age-defying 63-year-old face, Springsteen gathered up requests written on signs held up by the front rows, which led to such rarities as "Save My Love" and "Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)", all performed with trademark command and vocal passion, though the best of the mammoth three-and-half-hour set was yet to come.
And now, sated, they watch her warily, wondering why she's lingering when it's clear that her motherly duties have been dispensed with, and so she gathers up the cups, sets them on the tray, and starts back up the stairs.
