Word: collectivities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...orders for reconnaissance, forays, ambush raids and harassing attacks, Navarre this summer broke the usual pattern of the monsoon, when the French in the past stopped fighting in order to build up supplies and strengthen their outposts, and the Reds sortied into villages to terrorize, recruit men and collect the rice on which they live...
...announced:"Here Are All New York Papers' Lucky [Numbers]." Said Newsday: "Tired of lugging home [several] newspapers a day to find out how much your dollar bills are worth? ... So are we ... We're not interested in handing out thousands of dollars; we just want you to collect them. So we're going to help you . . . as a public service. And if that means letting you know where to pick up some $50,000 a week [by printing] the serial numbers of all those highly prized bills . . . why that's for us. Especially...
...additional revenue. But each 1% of a sales tax would yield $800 million if imposed at the manufacturer's level and $1.2 billion if put on retail sales. Since a retail tax would mean the checking of 3,000,000 stores, thus be expensive and hard to collect, those who favor the tax want it at the manufacturer's level...
...prison sentences as drastic as five years. On top of threat and punishment, the Reds tried by public ridicule to halt the sad parade of their hungry subjects. In Ruppin they put up posters showing a local man and his wife beside a well-stacked table. "The needy collect Ami food parcels," the signs read. "An example-Reinhard Dehnicke is a kulak with 44 hectares of land. He owns one tractor, three horses, 14 cows, 15 calves, five sheep, ten geese, 13 ducks, and employs two helpers." In East Berlin they pilloried Pastor Hermann Erhardt of the Pankow borough...
...Heritages Resurgent. The sons of the revolution appear to have learned to cherish equally their Indian and Spanish Christian heritages. Having accepted their past, they are ceasing to brood over it. Today it is fashionable in Mexico to collect pre-Columbian art, to dabble in archaeology, to wear Indian costumes and to study Indian customs. At the same time the Roman Catholic Church, long suppressed and persecuted by anticlerical revolutionists, is resurgent in Mexico. All over the country new modern churches are rising to replace those wrecked in the revolution. Nuns and priests wear their habits and cassocks in public...