Word: collected
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what is termed the New York School of poets, since they stay around there without grudging its riff-raff. And, besides the memoir of Lang, Alison Lurie has written novels about middle America. No one picked up on V.R. Lang's work until her husband and Lurie decided to collect a few poems and plays. Lurie, in particular, seems to feel that death cheated Lang out of a chance that she deserved to assert herself. Lang used to like Gauguin's remark that "Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge." But these pieces won't attract enough attention...
...couple needed their $5,000 to pay for a child's education. A messenger waited patiently to cash in $15 million in notes held by the Chemical Bank. An elderly married pair anxiously awaited payment of $25,000, half their life savings. A retired Brooklyn schoolteacher hoped to collect her $26,929. If she got it, she said, she would not reinvest it in New York's uncertain paper; she would put it into a lower-yielding but more secure savings bank. Finally, after a long line of people had waited for hours with increasing anxiety, Irving Gurfield...
...wave of cement." The country is paying a demurrage charge of $4,000 a day to many of the backed-up ships; total cost in the past six months: $18 million. Unscrupulous shipowners, the government believes, have added to the shambles by putting old tubs into line to collect demurrage, since it is more than they can make on the high seas. Paperwork is so fouled up that one shipper collected for demurrage and for cargo, even though he docked with nothing in his hold. In a desperate effort to find relief, Nigeria has tried to revoke the supposedly irrevocable...
...whole thing now. McInally had graduated amid much hoopla-- he was the first Harvard All-American since Endicott "Chub" Peabody '42 and the owner of a three-year contract with the Bengals-- but in the past four months he hasn't done much except nurse a broken leg, collect coins in his Cincinnati house, read Henry Miller, and draw his full salary (which he won't disclose.) He has yet to wear his Bengals jersey, a jarring detail to those who remember McInally going virtually everywhere last year wearing a big 84, his Harvard number. (At times, it seemed...
Wald said that his role in the task force will be to collect, interpret and publicize the alternatives which the task force's energy experts develop...