Word: collected
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Oral History of the Great Depression) hooked a national audience with the transcribed experiences of hundreds of Americans. Some scholars dismissed these books as little more than jumped-up man-in-the-street interviews, strong on emotion and weak on critical framework. The public disagreed. Let the eggheads collect cut-glass generalizations from Tocqueville and Toynbee. Folks read Studs to find out what it was really like on the bread lines and assembly lines...
...with Ellen O'Neill and Michelle Ippolito turning in some superb performances up front yesterday, Pew didn't have much garbage to collect...
...white city councilman urged citizen to get involved in the shooting; he boasted of having participated in the shooting of two men he said were robbing a store. A coalition of Hispanic groups, upset by his insensitive incitement of citizens to shoot others, announced they would collect signatures to force a recall election...
Harvard's library, which employs about 13 specialists in different areas who determine which books will be purchased, operates according to three basic principles, Feng says: to build on the system's strengths, to collect in response to curriculum needs, and to recognize "the broad scope of human knowledge that any self-respecting institution should be committed...
Wittkowski, who will collect his windfall in 20 annual installments of $2 million each, at first seemed unfazed. He said he planned to continue working ("If I quit, all I have to do is sit around and count my money") and promised to share his winnings with his brother, sister and father. "We want to stay just the way we are." But by the end of the press conference, the new millionaire said wearily, "I gotta go find a beer." After two days of talk shows and streams of visitors, he sought refuge farther afield. "He called me from...