Word: collectivities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...around the U.S. He hired local guides to point out species to him. On one memorable January day near Point Reyes, Calif., Vardaman sighted 111 different varieties. Every two weeks he mailed out a newsletter to 1,150 "birders," as the devotees call themselves, asking them to call him collect with news of rare species in their regions ("Ask for Birdman"). He hired planes and boats and bushwacked through the woods of northern Minnesota. He flew to Alaska four times and spent 14 days on Attu, a bleak island in the Aleutians, where he saw the green sandpiper. On July...
...They have collected $60 already, and will continue to collect more," Davenport said. "It just shows what a cohesive neighborhood East Cambridge is. It is not a racially-motivated area," he added...
...sided and biased" coverage, the government finally ordered the two expelled. But 48 hours earlier Van Voorst had received a call from a Foreign Ministry official telling him to be in Qum that evening if he wanted to see Khomeini. Van Voorst had barely 45 minutes to collect Reporter Raji Samghabadi and Photographer Kaveh Golestan. Says Van Voorst...
...came into her share of the Guggenheim copper fortune and departed for the bohemia of Paris and London. She flamboyantly dallied with writers and artists: two became her husbands (including Painter Max Ernst), many her lovers (including Playwright Samuel Beckett). Bored and between husbands in 1938, she began to collect art, later and anonymously sponsor young artists, adopting the motto "Buy a painting a day." When the Louvre declared in 1940 that her Dalis, Mirds and Picassos were not worth the effort of hiding them from the Nazis, she shipped them to New York, opened the influential Art of This...
...REASON SO MUCH OF The Brethren reads like a $13.95 edition of People Magazine is that the authors approached a potentially important project like autograph hounds at a Broadway opening, scrambling from the curb to the lobby in a frantic attempt to collect anything possibly significant. During a pre-Christmas Harvard appearance, the authors said a journalist's job was simply to find out and print whatever he could. "And let the chips fall where they may?" one questioner demanded. "Yeah," Woodward answered, leaning back in his chair. "You can't as a journalist sit there and say what...