Word: collected
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Varela in Sumapaz, are as much masters of their lands as any feudal lord. They fly a hammer-and-sickle flag, liquidate or banish dissenters, brainwash the populace with dinning P.A. systems, maintain their own efficient militia backed by arsenals that include machine guns and mortars. They even collect their own taxes, currently set at 10% of harvests...
February 13: Nixon delivers first lecture in which he announces that students may telephone him collect with their questions. That afternoon, instructors report that "the response has been appalling...
...collect capital for Brigadoon, they had to go through the show more than 50 times at auditions for prospective backers; Fair Lady was sold without a single audition; now they just pick up the phone. CBS has put up the entire $480,000 cost of Camelot, and money now follows L. & L. wherever they go. They have yachts in the Mediterranean and villas on the Riviera. Lerner has a town house in Manhattan, and Loewe an airy glass pleasure-dome in Palm Springs, Calif. Each owns an $18,000 Rolls-Royce convertible; Loewe's is "black pearl" grey and Lerner...
Whipple thinks that the earth's dust layer is the remains of comets, which bring fragile blobs of material from the outer fringes of the solar system. He suspects that when these cosmic puffballs pass through the Van Allen radiation belts that girdle the earth, they collect strong electric charges that make them pop. breaking them into microscopic dust particles that stay near the earth, perhaps following orbits like near-in satellites...
...Search of a Theater (1947), are the most well known. He has attracted a wide audience of grateful readers with his series of anthologies, From the Modern Repertoire, The Modern Theater, and The Classic Theater. Bentley as an anthologizer tends to be unique in that he does not simply "collect" plays that are sure to find readers, but seeks to "present" plays which will indicate the development of the theater. The Modern Theater, for example, can be considered as an examination of varying forms and styles of realism, showing the extent to which sentiment is giving way to exposure...