Word: collectively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...find his message disturbing, and as a result resent him. "Every Negro in Americus knows who I am, where I've been for the past three months, and what I've done," he stated, "but many still greet me, if at all, like a white insurance agent coming to collect money every week...
Every Thursday night at 8 o'clock thousands of Minneapolis and St. Paul housewives flip on their television sets to watch a video tape of the horse races at St. Petersburg's Sunshine Park. Their object is not to collect on a $2 bet but to match the numbers of the winning horses with numbers on cards that they picked up at their local National Food supermarket. The prizes are trading stamps-1,000 for a win, 500 for a place, 100 for a show...
Creditors hounded him so much, Walter recalled, that he used to hide under desks to avoid them, took to meeting the trains himself so he could "collect fares to pay a few creditors the next day." But as he fought to pull the family out of debt, Walter had his own ideas. In 1902 he borrowed $5,000 to start the Hawaiian Dredging Co.-something he himself considered "strictly a shoestring venture...
...crown has slipped since World War II. Of 40,000 patents granted in France last year, only 16,000 went to Frenchmen and the rest to foreigners, notably Americans. The West Germans, by latest count, spend $111 million a year more in fees to use foreign licenses than they collect from their own licenses abroad. Italy's University of Pavia found that less than one-third of 965 companies it surveyed engaged in any research...
...Civil Rights Coordinating Committee will collect a voluntary poll tax next Tuesday to support the voter registration program in the South. It will distribute leaflets at Cambridge polling places reminding citizens that "you can vote--most Southern Negroes...