Word: collective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...smuggling airplane engines to Central America with the help of a suave mastermind (Vincent Price) and a broken-down fingerman (Charles Laughton). Fed-Man Taylor finally convinces himself, with some hard-breathing monologuing, that Ava is innocent but deeply implicated. So why not sell out on his job and collect on his love-as well as on Laughton's $12,000 in hush money...
...file some copy and get some rest, Doyle cabled: "Since my wife and I came to China unencumbered with household goods, we can watch with a relaxed eye the pell-mell evacuation of Shanghai by those with loads of furniture and the ever present tung-hsi (things) that you collect out here. We have pared our operating essentials (clothes, household equipment, etc.) to a minimum and sent some of our things south against the possibility of looting in Shanghai should the city's fall become imminent. A neighboring correspondent and his wife, who plan to stay...
Their immediate goal in the fight against the draft, according to YPH president Jerry Gordon, is to enlist the leaders of undergraduate and graduate organizations as active members of a United Anti-Draft Committee, and to collect as many signatures as possible on a petition to be sent to President Truman. A mass "stop-the-draft" rally will be held before the Christmas vacation, and a series of faculty-and-student debates are being planned...
...Wenceslaus Square and compared the grim past with the glorious present. "The worker's lot has improved enormously, of course," said one. "Just the same, before the revolution they promised us that in the future it would be the masters' turn to sweep the streets and collect the garbage. Now what happens? We are still doing the dirty work." The other took a long draught of his beer. "Ah," he replied at last, "you seem to forget: we are now the masters...
Experimenters have used radioactive carbon to follow the fat through the veins of rats, and have detected it on their breath as fast as they could collect breath samples. Unfortunately, rats have been the only successful subjects. Humans who got the shots only developed a fever and had to be hospitalized...