Word: collectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Constitution seems clear enough. It says that Congress "shall have power to lay and collect taxes...and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States." But when Congress has appropriated money, must a President spend it? Yes, say most congressional leaders. No, says President Nixon...
Three Radcliffe Houses decided this week to sponsor a benefit dance to collect funds for the rebuilding of the Bach Mai hospital in North Vietnam...
Collier's language is economical and stinging and his standards of malevolence are consistently high. Three or four of these 47 stories might well have been omitted from the collection, but the rest are matchless. The sly and funny short novel, His Monkey Wife, is also included, a model of prose technique and misogyny. A bottle of your very best girl, waiter, for the editor who had the happy inspiration to collect the work of this master. "JohnSkow
...have one's name on the Crimson masthead is an entirely different thing. One might possibly collect five dollars on that account, but the larger sums of hard cash are just not there. So financially it does not pay to belong to the Crime. Going from the sublime to the ridiculous, the employees of The Greatest Show on Earth, from John Ringling North down to the lowliest water carrier, have a saying that they "are with it." This phrase means exactly what it says--that they are with it--and very proud they are indeed to be with...
...Delhi, many Indians look to New York rather than London as the exciting city to visit, or for study or work. They are more impressed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology than they are by the London School of Economics, they read The New Yorker instead of Punch, and collect original recordings of Broadway musicals...