Word: collectivities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...didn't feel right." Even Uncle Walter kept us moving, often for no good reason. We spent hours in department stores shopping for the just-right pillow he could sit on during broadcasts. Crewmen were driven to the racetrack and to liquor stores, and once I even had to collect a bigwig's poodle clutching mistress from the airport...
...centuries the domes have served as a source of cheap table salt. In Louisiana, salt miners have carved out huge underground caverns. The domes act as traps for oil and natural gas, which collect in neighboring rock in cracks and fissures created by the upthrust of the salt...
...purpose of the annual event is to educate students on the benefits of using condoms and to collect signatures for a petition to permit radio and television stations to advertise condoms...
Some scientists are already looking ahead to creating bacteria that can help collect scarce metals by leaching (or dissolving) them directly out of the earth, or force out the last drops of petroleum from nearly exhausted wells, or even sift the diffuse quantities of gold in the world's oceans. Like faithful robots, they would work uncomplainingly, without interruption or distraction. All they would require is the appropriate nourishment and the right sort of care...
There are only a few distractions that can divert the Bushmen from a guerrilla's trail. An entire unit will come to a halt to collect and devour the honey from a wild-bee comb in a tree, for instance. And the presence of a hyena anywhere in the vicinity is likely to bring on inexplicable and uncontrollable fits of derisive laughter from the Bushmen. Otherwise, they have won the respect of their South African officers. "They've taught me what survival means," says one. "For all their small stature, they can put some of our big stocky...