Word: collectively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...feel compelled to comment on the "disciple family." I would no sooner "save the hoot owl" with my family than I would "collect thunder eggs." And furthermore, my parents would not "hire a wolf to howl at the door" in order to have a common crisis around which the family can rally. If familial solidarity is dependent upon crises and thunder eggs, then I am all for a broken home. The very values for which the disciple family stands are, essentially, those values that the youth of today is intent upon rejecting. The value judgment that girls are not given...
...goals. The possibilities range from tutoring slum kids to organizing block councils, restoring old houses, sailing a sloop to Ireland and running Pop for political office. Steve Hutchison, an Oregon artist, rancher and father of two young sons, offers more ideas: "Build a summer cabin, save the hoot owl, collect thunder eggs, build a telescope, pioneer in Alaska, which desperately needs able people." If the family still lacks a common crisis, says Hutchison, "Hire a wolf to howl at the door...
Though the Center does virtually no direct work for the government, it receives a good deal of Federal Funds. Enough, Dix says, that it must abide by the government's edict against idle time being used free of cost by students. The Center must collect for every job done on its computers, and for what technical assistance it give those who use its facilities...
...once," he said slyly. "Nudity for a beautiful creature is natural enough, and for those around her is rather satisfying. But whatever attraction I feel for England, I never said that about her." Having got his guffaws and proved himself one of the boys, he then went on to collect the rest of the questions and to deliver his memorized peroration, all the important questions having been planted with newsmen in advance...
...Jhelum River was to be diverted, war broke out between India and Pakistan. Though the battle line came within 50 miles of the site, only nightwork was stopped, since the camp had to be blacked out. The contractors were racing to complete the project ahead of schedule and collect a $6,000,000 bonus, which the Atkinson consortium counted on when it set its price-$20 million under the next lowest...