Word: collected
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much intended to calm the loyalist military as it was to knock rebel heads. For weeks, the soldiers, led by Armed Forces Chief Rivera Caminero, have been muttering angrily that President Garcia-Godoy was too soft on the left, was loading his Cabinet with rebels, and failing to collect rebel arms. The rebels, in turn, have been loudly crying for Garcia-Godoy to fire Rivera Caminero and the rest of the service chiefs for their so-called "genocide" early in the civil war. At one point, Garcia-Godoy came out of a four-hour Cabinet meeting ready...
Tarr attributes the summer slump to a lack of time for organization of these new areas. Because they worked through summer schools, Operation organizers sometimes had as little as eight weeks time to make advertising and press contacts, win approval for their product, and finally collect and program questionnaires...
...Geelong Grammar School, an exclusive institution operated by the Church of England. It is designed to toughen up 130 young aristocrats every year. The boys do all their own housekeeping except cook. They make overnight hikes across 1,300 acres of rugged Crown land, watch birds, hunt beetles, collect butterflies...
...average of 1,000 people around the world are killed in commercial airline crashes each year. Under the 1929 Warsaw Convention, a civil aviation treaty now covering 92 nations, the heirs of those who died on international flights could for many years collect only a maximum of $8,291*-unless they could prove willful misconduct. The U.S., whose citizens are the world's most frequent and most affluent air travelers, has for years considered this figure ridiculously low. Even after 45 of the Warsaw signers agreed to double the liability to $16,582 in 1955, the U.S. felt that...
...process. To convince Englishmen of the merits of regular dry cleaning, the P.R. division of the Smith-Warden advertising agency put two of its executives in white suits, had them tramp to work through dirty London streets for a month, showing vividly how much dirt a suit can collect in normal wear. Reaching ahead to generations of new passengers, the public relations staff of Germany's Lufthansa Airlines helps a TV network put on a teen-age show about a Lufthansa copilot, collaborates on aviation books for young people, circulates a free library of 60 films on flying...