Word: collected
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...relatively weak Prime Minister, who will let them run their own affairs with a minimum of direction from New Delhi, to someone like Indira's main rival, former Finance Minister Morarji Desai, 71, who undoubtedly would like to curb their independence. To give Desai less time to collect supporters, the party's parliamentary board moved the selection of Prime Minister forward by three weeks, to March 12. Indira was also helped by a feeling that the party should avoid any further upheavals. Said one state chief: "Enough blood has flowed already...
...waging a war of starvation against the Egyptian people" by withholding shipments of surplus American wheat. What is more, he hinted broadly that Egypt henceforth might refuse to pay its foreign-aid debts to "those who exert economic pressure on us"-meaning the U.S. "Those who want to collect their loans will have to run after us, asking for payment...
...abandoned any intention of withdrawing from the area at just about the time the British announced that they would grant independence in 1968 to Yemen's neighbor, South Arabia. For Nasser, South Arabia, with its oil refineries in Aden, would be a prestige prize well worth waiting to collect when the British leave...
...only one survivor, Skipper Julian Harvey. Three days later, a freighter picked up another survivor, an eleven-year-old girl, Terry Jo Duperrault. Harvey promptly killed himself-even before the child reported how the debt-burdened skipper had murdered her family and his own wife in a plot to collect $20,000 in insurance...
...full five fathoms the treasure lay for the next 250 years. In 1949, a Sebastian, Fla., contractor named Kip Wagner began to collect the blackened silver coins that occasionally washed ashore. None of them, he noted, were dated later than 1715. Wagner began ransacking libraries for data on the 1715 catastrophe. He managed to obtain 3,000 feet of microfilmed documents from Seville archives, found details of the Silver Plate fleet's cargo manifestoes plus testimony from the official investigation of the wreck...