Word: collectively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hundred people I meet want to talk about only one thing, baseball, and that doesn't make for very interesting conversation. Just suppose, for example, that you were a garbage collector and every day about a hundred people stopped you and asked how much garbage you collected that day and how much you expected to collect the next...
Rockefeller has sought with some success to collect Robert Kennedy's dispersed forces and thereby show his appeal across party lines. Last week, for example, he won endorsements from Martin Luther King Sr. and a number of other Negro leaders, including militants. He inveighs against the "Old Politics" and promises "new leadership" to appeal generally to voters groping for a guide. Just how effective that appeal can be was shown when a comely Illinois delegate told him during his visit to Chicago early in the week: "Governor, I'm a member of three minorities?I'm a woman, a Negro...
...varies for different offices, but California requires a Governor to face a special election if petitioners collect signatures amounting to at least 12% of the last gubernatorial vote. On the ballot, alternate candidates are offered in case the official is turned out. In California, such efforts have always failed before. Since the tactic was first applied statewide in 1911,* petitions have been circulated against three Governors, but never were enough signatures collected. Political experts doubt that this drive against Reagan will have much better luck. Even so, the Governor has conceded that the effort alone could be "embarrassing...
...Prague's baroque Lesser Town, 500 people gather in a square, and a young man mounts a box to unfurl a banner reading: DEMOCRATIZATION MUST BECOME DEMOCRACY. Everyone starts cheering wildly. Along the glittering Vltava River, bearded young men and miniskirted girls collect signatures on a petition demanding that the government resume diplomatic relations with Israel; after they have collected 30,000 signatures, they are invited to the office of the foreign ministry to have tea and cake-and discuss government policy. At a meeting in the city of Moravská Ostrava, Czechoslovak intellectuals face an audience of workers...
Painful Riders. Losers of damage suits are notoriously slow payers, and all too often the winner finds himself back in court fighting to collect what the law has said is rightfully his. But Adams' debtor, after all, was the U.S. Government. His money seemed practically in his pocket...