Word: summing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...every home the King left a small sum of money. One old seamstress refused to accept her envelope, saying, "There are people worse off than I, monsieur." When the abbe told her the identity of her benefactor, she accepted. One man refused, saying, "I work for my living." It was night when Abbé Froidure drove the King back to Laeken Palace. Said Baudouin: "It's scandalous that people are living in such conditions." To Health Minister de Taeye he said: "Something must be done about it." Asked next day exactly what he was going to do about...
...doubt that there is plenty of fat. For last year's $45 billion spent on arms, the U.S. got only 9,000 planes, and similarly low quantities of tanks, pieces of artillery, jeeps and trucks and an Army of 3,700,000. In World War II, for that sum, the U.S. got 38,000 planes, 10,000 tanks, 75,000 pieces of artillery, 540,000 trucks and jeeps etc. and supported an Army of ii million. Even considering higher prices and more complex equipment, the U.S. is still a shockingly long way from getting its money's worth...
During his Korean trip, Ike had pondered and, in large measure, set the course the U.S. ought to take in its foreign and economic policies. He had set up liaison with congressional leaders, political leaders from all parts of the country, business leaders, various experts on national problems. In sum, he had assumed national leadership in everything but formal fact-and hardly anybody was worrying about Eisenhower's lack of experience...
...civilized France is an unhappy, frustrated country; the whole is less than the sum of its parts, and the nation is more in need of a psychiatrist than a physician. In their moments of candor, the French recognize the missing element in themselves: it is civisme, a sense of community responsibility. Divisions are as old and as deep as the French Revolution. At the root is a profound lack of faith in government, an individualism carried almost to the point of anarchy...
...sum, they say, "the association between smoking and carcinoma of the lung is real." But they do not go so far as to say that smoking is the sole cause of the increased death rate, or even that it is a factor in every case. There is still much to be learned about how it works...