Word: rakingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...merchants alone cheated the government out of $1.9 million last year. Out in the country, big landholders drive off revenooers at gunpoint, never pay a cruzeiro. According to the taxmen in Buenos Aires last week, if all Latin Americans should start paying taxes scrupulously, their governments would rake in another $3 billion each year...
...before Russia had time to present its own Communist resolution on the subject. By proposing debate, the State Department hopes to rally a majority of the Assembly behind its move to declare the whole matter of Chinese membership an "important question," i.e., substantive. Then the Communists will have to rake up an impossible two-thirds General Assembly vote to force China's Communists...
...briefly in the early LP boom. When business started to wane. Kratka recalled Columbia's earlier, unsuccessful "Add-a-Part" series on 78-r.p.m. disks, decided that the added convenience of LPs might make the idea work. At first, Music Minus One recorded chiefly classical releases, began to rake in the profits when it added jazz. It omits every instrument in the orchestra but the harp, often makes a single piece of music available in several mutations: Schubert's "Trout" Quintet can be bought without piano, violin, viola, cello or bass. The company's bestseller...
...Neat Answers. Though responsibility for the study and its findings fell on an "Ad Hoc Citizens' Committee" of 22.† the rake work was done by Dr. Robert H. Hamlin, 38, an associate professor of public health administration at Harvard. An aggressively organized man with degrees in public health and law as well as an M.D.. Dr. Hamlin likes neat and consistent answers to straightforward questions. In this study, as he sifted the results of 500 interviews and stacks of reports collected over two years, he could find none. Even the biggest and best-known health agencies, such...
...Hans Werner Henze, 34, whose cherubic face and businesslike manner disguise a talent for brazen dissonance, eerie melody and phantasmagorical plots. For good measure, the libretto was by British Poet W. H. Auden and the U.S.'s Chester Kallman, their first since they teamed with Stravinsky on The Rake's Progress a decade...