Word: collectivities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...avert surprise invasions by crop pests, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has developed fluorescent "lamp traps." Luring the "advance-guard" moths of crop-destroying grubs (e.g., tobacco budworms, cotton bollworms) with near-ultraviolet "black light," the traps soon collect a representative catch, give farmers as much as three weeks' time to prepare counter-measures against each type of invader...
Promptly two other promissory notes, for 1,000 rupees each, turned up in the hundi-creditors who had not been able to collect on them had endorsed them in favor of Lord Venkateshwara. It worked. When the temple trustees told their new debtors that they were filing suit, both rushed up the holy hill with the rupees...
...enemies were well aware that a move was afoot to send the motion to committee. Arkansas' Democratic J. William Fulbright had tried to buttress Flanders' generalized motion with a specific six-count amendment, which included the old charge that Joe had shaken down Lustron Corp. to collect a $10,000 fee for writing a housing booklet. Republican Leader William Knowland moved to refer the censure motion to a select committee of three Republicans and three Democrats...
...cash when he was seized. J. Edgar Hoover described Bary as "one of the party's outstanding West Coast underground leaders." Bary had won quite an unusual job from the party; his job was to find out how the FBI was able to plant informers and otherwise collect information on underground Reds. He was, apparently, so maladroit at this task that he could not even foresee or forestall his own arrest...
...Many Stadiums. Rice lived sports, was always kind to those he wrote about. At the race track he inevitably bought a pocketful of daily-double tickets, sometimes forgot to collect when he won. He was never too busy to praise a colleague, help a cub, or compose a verse. One of his favorites...