Word: collectable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...amplified a thousand times as they were piped through a liquid helium maser. So slow was the transmission rate that no complete picture could be received at any one tracking station. As the Earth's rotation carried one station out of range, another moved into position to collect the rest of the message...
...many people peek in between eight and ten every night, but decide to come back later when the crowed is larger. Things get going when a few brave souls finally congregate shortly after ten. "If the early ones would only stay, I'm sure a group would collect by nine," Shepard mused...
...after us. We must trust one another and stick together. If anybody knows about embezzlement, the Southern white man knows. He embezzled my mother, he embezzled my grandmother, he embezzled my grandfather. He cannot say to anybody, 'You are accused of embezzlement,' because if we could collect all he embezzled, the white man would be in rags...
...alone can hardly reverse Saigon's rising tide of corruption. A huge, incalculable bite from Washington's $1 billion foreign-aid program is taken each year by government and military officials. U.S. refrigerators and air conditioners meant for hospitals end up in generals' homes; troop commanders collect the "phantom pay" of soldiers whose deaths in combat go unreported to Saigon. For $675, a well-to-do youth can buy an Interior Ministry "diploma" that certifies him as a government spy, thus exempting him from army service. A trick currently in favor with provincial chiefs is to blow...
...demanded dismissal of the infant's case without a trial. Never before had such a case been successfully pleaded, the state pointed out. In 1963 the Illinois Appellate Court dismissed a similar suit (Zepeda v. Zepeda) on the ground that recognition of a bastard's right to collect damages would mean creation of a new tort. If that happened, ruled the Illinois court, "one might seek damages for being born of a certain color, another because of race, one for being born with a hereditary disease, another for inheriting unfortunate family characteristics; one for being born into...