Word: summing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When asked what he thought of Senator McCarthy and the McCarran committee, Chafee said "There's more than one to blame. I see no reason for singling out any specific individual ... The Senate itself must take appropriate action (such as) assessing the member a sum of money to compensate victims of his baseless accusations. This should sometimes be done whether a man is expelled...
...chiefs and his equally intense concern for the safety of his country. When politics or expediency dictated policies that violated Forrestal's calculations of military necessities, he kept his worries within the official family, obeyed orders, and waited for the next chance at temperate persuasion. The sum total of his influence slowly moved the U.S. toward military realism, yet he had few personal victories to record. He could never bring himself to break security and either boast or speak out against his critics, but the criticism cut him deep. "Public service," he once observed, "is no place...
...diaries give no reason for his suicide. But the sum total of the cryptic entries, the reflections, the worries and the responsibilities, add up to a strong case that James Forrestal was a casualty in a desperate battle to save the American people from complacency...
...inaugural programs last Saturday and Sunday the Lowell Institute Cooperative Broadcasting Council received plaudits for its latest project. James B. Conant, President of Harvard, called it "the composite voice of a whole education community, a sum of educational parts." Aaron Copland, Charles Elliott Norton Professor of Poetry, said he considers it "the bright new hope of American radio...
...paradoxical it is that The Big Party [TIME, Sept. 17] should prompt Barbara Hutton to dress as Mozart at the cost of a sum that would have given to the great composer a lifetime of relief from economic struggle . . . JAMES A. PAULSEN Captain, M.C. San Antonio...