Word: collectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Accept Insults-for a Price. To raise funds for a new science building, students at Maine's Unity College sold raffle tickets entitling them to throw pies at faculty members. Past President Allan Karstetter squashed a pie on his own face to collect a $200 stake put up for the occasion by one of his trustees...
...history of passionate infatuation and ruthless exploitation, of missionary zeal and often of tremendous mutual incomprehension. The cycle started with the education in Hartford, Conn., of China's first foreign students in 1872. Eventually, as Dean Acheson wrote, "hardly a town in our land was without its society to collect funds and clothing for Chinese missions ... Thus was nourished the love portion of our love-hate complex that was to infuse so much emotion into our later China policy...
...were frozen. The Justice Department requested that the banks not allow anyone to withdraw the money. Buford's attorney Mark Lane, who once represented the cult, says he also made such a request. Lane denied reports, however, that while he was in Europe last week he tried to collect some of the money...
...Wills had "painted out the scepter." In fact, quipped the former Secretary of State, the unveiling was "one of my most fulfilling moments. Until they do Mount Rushmore." Artist Wills, too, felt fulfilled. Unlike Cox, who was paid only $1,500 in expenses for his rejected picture, Wills will collect a fee of $10,500. He will be the last painter to be so lucky. Jimmy Carter has requested that in the future, all official portraits be color photographs...
...chic portrayal of teen depravity. (At Weinstein's the vice president did not criticize Hollywood.) Then came a starry concert at Radio City Music Hall that featured raunchy jokes by comedic actor John Leguizamo (where Gore did criticize Hollywood). This week Gore and his party are expected to collect an additional $4 million on the West Coast, again largely from the industry...