Word: summed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...training site. As the date for final selection approaches (in our case, two days before the termination of the program) the tension is very great, and everyone is aware that his twelve weeks training and his plans for the next two years are in the balance. In sum, I wouldn't call that aspect of the training program at all pleasant, though there's no denying the necessity...
Reynolds testified that he paid that sum to Baker out of an approximate $10,000 commission he had earned for writing a performance bond on Philadelphia Contractor Matthew McCloskey, successful bidder on the stadium project. McCloskey, who recently resigned as U.S. Ambassador to Ireland, is a longtime Democratic Party moneybags. Reynolds said that Baker arranged for him to meet McCloskey in Baker's Capitol office. Reynolds also testified that he paid $1,500 from the same commission to William N. McLeod Jr., then clerk of the House of Representatives' District of Columbia Committee...
...education starts in the first grade, pointing out that young minds -unless taught differently-can confuse instruction with encouragement. Arguing that "chastity in no way is harmful to health," the doctors declared that "monogamous marriage [with] common responsibility for the children, is the natural order of life." In sum, the doctors urged schools to teach "what is right and wrong...
...cover stories, appearing over a period of 40 years, sum up much of Soviet Russia's history. During the war years it was the Russian generals and marshals who often appeared on TIME'S cover, many of their names-Budenny, Rokossovsky, Timoshenko, Voronov-now half-forgotten echoes of an era when the U.S. desperately tried to believe in the good faith of its Russian allies. There also were the artists, from Prokofiev and Shostakovich to Evgeny Evtushenko, always on the brink of political disgrace...
...carriers enter, it is with a flash of steel and a purpose. She knows all the languages of opera, knows music so well that she often conducts. She pursues authenticity and realism to the point of demanding old chains instead of new rope on an obscure drawbridge, and the sum of her interests gives even a bizarre tale such as 1 Puritani the dignity of at least passing plausibility...