Word: collection
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another exercise was carried out on an American missile-firing range in Germany. Some shepherds recruited by Soviet military-intelligence agents were used to scour the range looking for components of the fired missiles. The shepherds were told by their GRU directors to collect every piece of metal they could find. The GRU was not interested in warheads as such, but in elements of the guidance system that experts in Moscow were able to use to improve their equivalent missiles. Take the Soviet Strela-2 antiaircraft missile -- it's an exact copy of the American Redeye. Take...
Until a few weeks ago, before the winds of progress struck, the Boot Key Marina was the kind of place where everybody got together and cooked a collective Thanksgiving dinner. They had parties all the time. Ellie Sharp, who spent the past six years at the marina with her husband Pat aboard their 39-ft. sailboat, the Tranquillity II, liked to collect everyone's aluminum cans, sell them and use the money for the regular Saturday hamburger cookouts. In the winter, when the weather was right, 25 or 30 people would wander down to the end of the dock...
...arrange that Harvard tells you to go home on steak night? The Food services administrators really think that without a "no-interhouse" rule, we would all go to each of Harvard's 13 dining halls and collect T-bones...
Finally, he turned to collect his stats books, and the team turned to walk back across the river. Then, he yelled over to the group of them, "Nice job, girls...
Assistant Director of Athletics Scott H. Anderson said that normal policy is to collect visiting teams' valuables for protection. However, Penn declined, according to Anderson...