Word: summing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...acceptance of the status quo of Communist conquests, a softening-up of American will? Is he trying to shore up his own status in Communism's labyrinthine society, and if so against whom-against an aggressive Communist China, against restless captive peoples, against hostile Kremlin cliques? Is the sum of Khrushchev's intentions that he means to show that his is the face of the future...
...from the Warehouse. Squat, muscular James Riddle Hoffa. 46, once tried to sum up in four short sentences his career after he left school at the end of the seventh grade: "I got a job in a department store-stock boy. Then I got a job at Kroger's. And that's my whole life. Pretty simple life...
...able to sum up, analyze and assess the news, TIME'S writers and editors need a superior brand of energetic reporting from their correspondents. Some examples of reporters at work for stories in this week's TIME...
...Base, where under ideal weather conditions shrieking F-IOI and F-102 jet fighters land and take off in flocks of 500 a day. But the U.S. has to listen if the King's ministers want to renegotiate. For the use of Wheelus, the U.S. paid an initial sum of $7,000,000 and 24,000 tons of wheat, agreed to an annual $4,000,000 rental until 1960 and $1,000,000 a year after that for eleven years. Libya has now demanded ten times as much-a whopping $40 million a year-in rent for Wheelus...
...explanation that rings tinnily in a reporter's accounting of desperate hours in the history of a people. And however it may fit the uses of a historical sum-up, it has even less use as an explanation of the course of seasoned Correspondent Matthews or of the vagaries of the Cuba story in the seasoned (108 years) New York Times...