Word: collectively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Coots'") Matthews, have tamed 50 wells in Bahrein, Brazil, Bolivia, Guatemala, Venezuela, Canada and the U.S. With an affluence known to no other firemen, Adair and his boys race to U.S. oilfield fires in flame-red Lincoln Continentals, fly in jet comfort to more distant alarms, and often collect as much as $20,000 plus expenses for a single job. For all his flamboyance-he indulges his fondness for red in his coveralls, safety helmets, office rug and secretary's hair-Adair is methodical about his business, carefully notes and catalogues everything he learns from a fire...
...heavily from the independently wealthy Parkman. Parkman became furious with his debtor when he found that both he and another creditor had been given the same bill of sale as a security. He pursued Webster relentlessly and finally made an appointment to see the latter at his laboratory to collect the debt...
...launch the ecumenical movement was "Let the Church be the Church." And this, he says, "did not mean that the church should run away from the world. It did mean that the church was not merely an echo of trends in the world." The ecumenical impulse is not "to collect churches as you collect stamps, but a movement of all faiths to put the church on a higher level. The biggest part of the ecumenical movement is to get all the churches involved in a great common task, and then they are forced together...
...coast. Harvard Graduate Roger Hamilton, 22, teaching in the coastal village of Assinie, is cut off by tropical rains for nine months of the year, shares his house with a herd of goats and an occasional snake, sometimes needs eleven hours to Jeep 18 miles over Ghana roads to collect supplies. Hamilton has no complaints. Says he: "It's a good thing I don't mind isolation...
...exile. It also places the Nationalist government on a spot. If the government refuses him permission to travel to Oslo next month to pick up his $43,300 prize money, it will put itself in the same company as Russia, which in 1958 would not allow Boris Pasternak to collect his Nobel Prize for literature. Said South Africa's famed Novelist Alan Paton: "If they let Luthuli go to Oslo, that will be bad, and if they don t let him go, that will be bad too. If he goes, he'll speak, and if he doesn...