With that clip in hand, I packed my rusted Subaru and left what would have been considered a promising position in Madison Avenue advertising, had my salary cut by more than two-thirds, and found myself in an empty, sandy sector of the world — the Cape in winter — racing from town meeting to meeting, police to fire department, living room to kitchen table, gathering the news.
Table gathering the results of docking and protein and ligand properties.
Before I joined my first board, I had, like many do, a picture in my head of a kind of King Arthur and the Round Table gathering: wise people assembled behind a closed door, sitting around a table, thinking well-intentioned chivalrous thoughts, having deep discussions about the present and future of organizations, and speaking in a special "thee" and "thou" language.
The youngster known as Woodie was a precocious presence accompanying his parents to the Algonquin Round Table gatherings of the 1920's and sometimes interrupted the witticisms with smart-aleck remarks of his own.
Over the years, Colt brother dinner table gatherings grew increasingly civilized, although vestiges of the mealtime strategies honed in childhood have occasionally led to trouble in the wider world.
At a timeout during that run, Dunn angrily slammed her fist on the scorer's table before gathering her team.
Curling up with one of my dogs for a nap on the sofa, reading the Sunday papers around the coffee table, or gathering with friends for a memorable dinner - all bring great joy.
Each November, Americans push tables together, gathering friends and families around them to acknowledge, among other gifts, the essential American blessings -- material abundance and the ability to enjoy the product of "our own labor and care".
Forsaking woods and streams for her backyard, Ms. Zeph practices what she calls "weed patch-to-table cuisine," gathering armloads of nettles on her property in Kent, N.Y., and blending them with garlic shoots, sorrel and lovage — "basically whatever is taking over the garden," she said — to make a pungent soup that is a favorite with her customers.
At Jamie's table, the long table, people are gathering.
Mr. Morales, 78, is a Mayanist, host of the Palenque Round Table, a gathering of scholars, and grand panjandrum of Panchan, an ethereal forest of cabanas and restaurants favored by world travelers.
