Word: collect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...None ever make it, but all pass up wind-chilled passengers with maniacal glee. On a slushy winter morning a good driver, as he speeds past, can hit as many as a dozen fist-flourishing bystanders with the spray from his wheels. Years of diving through elbowing passengers to collect the 10? fares has given many a conductor the temperament of a yegg; most ram their nickel-plated, jingling coin-collectors at the entering passenger's belly like a gunman wielding...
Shawcross then read his scribbled resolution. It provided for "the immediate establishment of an international supervisory commission operating within the framework of the Security Council but in its operations not subject to the veto of any Power. . . ." Purpose: to collect information on troops and arms...
...meteorologists will study Antarctica's storms, using everything from sounding balloons to radar. They will take the temperature at all depths of the cold Antarctic seas, clock the powerful currents that surge northward to affect the climate of South America, Australia and Africa. The data they collect should help stay-at-home weathermen...
...Bakewell to get directions. He entered the cattails just six feet from where the mallard was hidden, sniffed for a second, found his bird. A few minutes later, Shed did it again, and won his third U.S. championship. His owner, who once turned down $10,000 for him, will collect almost that much next year from Shed's stud fees. Said an admiring voice in the gallery: ''Handling that dog is like driving...
Like most farm wives, talkative, plumpish Amy Kelsey has chores aplenty. Near British Columbia's Creston (pop. 1,153) she helps her husband tend their ten-acre fruit farm, keep their unpainted frame house pin-neat, still finds time to collect stamps, grow prize wheat and corn. Thirty-five years in the Canadian West have greyed her hair but never dimmed her ardor for blue-ribbon awards. Since 1934, the wheat and corn she planted between the trees in her husband's apple orchards have won 40 prizes in U.S. and Canadian shows...