Word: collectivities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...victimized from distant places by the foibles of nature and of man. Our Buenos Aires subscribers complained enough to make us realize that a July snow over high Andean peaks can ground TIME-carrying planes. Elsewhere, similar protests led us to the certain knowledge that some postmen liked to "collect" American stamps and magazines. Then there were customs, censorship and currency, all subject to violent and sudden change...
...whenever he makes a decision, I barely mumble. Whenever he speaks, I hardly utter a single word. Whenever he gives advice, I scarcely dare make a suggestion. What he sees I hardly glimpse. But I see him with the eyes of my soul . . . And I have pledged myself to collect the hopes of the Argentine people and empty them in the marvelous heart of Perón so that he may turn them into realities...
...future President also had his money problems as an undergraduate. One time, he asked his father for $100 "to provide for accidents." Later he asked for another $100 to pay his quarterly College bills. "This must be sent to me immediately," he urged, "or the College will collect on my bond which will be very disagreeable both for Mr. M--- and myself...
...Ethel Rosenberg, wife of Julius and sister of confessed Spy David Greenglass. A short, plump woman of 35, she lived with Julius and their two sons in a grubby, $51-a-month apartment on Manhattan's Lower East Side and helped Julius collect and record vital espionage data...
Insurance investigators were justifiably suspicious when Mrs. Grace Walker tried to collect for head injuries she claimed she suffered while walking near a granite quarry last month. Mrs. Walker, alias Rimrock Annie, had had a long and profitable history of similar claims. Her success was due to the fact that she could apparently concoct at will such convincing symptoms as bleeding at the ear. In Colorado, Annie admitted her talent for artistic malingering, pleaded guilty to a charge of fraud (TIME, Feb. 26). Last week she was sentenced to the state penitentiary for one to three years...