Word: collectable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Frankfurter persisted, deadpan. How did anybody know what the devices were bought for? "A person might not buy them for use." he mused. "Some people might just want to collect them. People collect all sorts of queer things. Some people collect matchboxes. I know a man who collects sausage containers...
...fever victims without catching the disease, was moved to another isolated shack, where he was exposed to an Aedes aegypti mosquito, which bit him on the knuckles of his right hand, was near death as he fought a 105° fever and lost 40 lbs., but finally survived to collect a $300 bonus, a $200-a-month lifetime pension and a special congressional medal. When asked why he volunteered, South Carolinian Hanberry replied: "It was the thing to do." After his Cuban ordeal, Hanberry never again entered a hospital until last December...
...Advocate also contains the various poems that habitually collect toward the end of the issue. Jeremy Johnston's poem, the first of these, is the only excellent piece in the entire issue: Mr. Johnston uses the ballad form, which he handles so adroitly, to express something darker than the fancies of his earlier work. His poem is an extended metaphor, illustrating the sophisticated command of language and ironic use of rhyme which has previously engaged the attention of this reviewer. It is a great pleasure to see someone write about a highly personal subject with detachment, eschewing the offensive gurgle...
Then there are the civil servants. More than 2,000 Belgians are employed by provincial governments and by Premier Joseph Ileo's central Congolese regime to run waterworks, power plants, to collect taxes and keep account books. Without them, things would grind to a halt in many a Congo town. Not long ago, the lights went out and the water stopped running in Bukavu when the four Belgians who manned the Ruzuzi River dam took off in terror at the arrival of gun-toting Congolese soldiers...
...every veteran of any of the last four wars (Spanish-American through Korea) who lived in Kentucky at the time he entered the service. Also eligible: veterans' widows, widowers, parents and orphaned children now under 18. Kentucky estimates that some 450,000 people will collect a bonus bonanza amounting to $136 million, but the total cost will be at least $260 million, counting administrative expenses and interest on bond issues. Kentuckians will be paying off that bill, through a new 3% sales tax, for 30 years...