Word: collectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...terminal cancer. Here her prose becomes spare and piercing: "I sat with him, had coffee-he still couldn't forget the night before. I asked him if he felt better. 'It's always better in the daylight.' Sun day School was short, I had to collect my babies-I said I'd be right back and kissed him as I always did. Newspapers later printed that he said, 'Goodbye, Kid,' mak ing it seem overly dramatic and pointed...
...original. It is ridiculous to think that they could take over a huge metropolitan area without arousing opposition from more than a handful of people or the interest of the press, which might be counted on to observe with interest phe nomena like masses of citizens, lined up to collect their pods. The fact is that this film wants to have it both ways: to have a more urbane, more "important" scope than the original, and yet retain some of its inexpensive intimacy as well...
Your reference to "the Milwaukee housewife who hauls trash barrels to the curb every Monday morning" is incorrect. No one hauls barrels to the street in Milwaukee. Our sanitary engineers collect trash from wherever it may be: garage, backyard, etc., not at curbside...
...ceremony had been planned as a duet, but it came off as more of a solo. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat felt there was no point in going to Oslo to collect his half of this year's $173,700 Nobel Peace Prize. Instead, he sent an aide and confidant, Sayed Marei, a former Speaker of Egypt's parliament. The cause of Sadat's disenchantment: the Middle East peace treaty negotiations begun at Camp David were still stalled over two issues. One was Israel's insistence that the pact should take precedence, in time of conflict, over...
...collect and make available to its members information pertaining...