Word: summing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jordan waters, even if construction is ever started, will take some six years to complete. And the blackmail against Bonn may well backfire, since the West German aid of $242 million to the 13 Arab states would be cut off with the breaking of diplomatic relations. That is a sum the Arabs could scarcely hope to obtain from East Germany...
...allies: "We will not, and should not assume it is the task of Americans alone to settle all the conflicts of a torn and troubled world." At times Johnson struck a nice balance between selfless service and enlightened self-interest in U.S. dealings with the world, but in sum, as Paris' Le Monde put it, on foreign affairs, he suffered from "creative inertia...
...largest sum, $15,000, went to the Chemistry Department for aid in basic research. A $1200 fellowship for a graduate teaching assistant will be accompanied by an additional $500 grant to the Department...
Although individuals have contributed more than $12.5 million to Harvard, the Ford grant is the largest lump-sum gift the University has ever received. Edward Harkness, who contributed heavily toward the construction of the Houses in the 1930's gave almost $13 million in a series of smaller installments...
Seething, the lawyer states his business. In the prime of life, his client, Miss Alice, the richest woman in the world, is ready to grant the unearthly sum of "100 million a year" for the next 20 years to the Catholic Church. (In view of later events, this may not be money but souls.) All that remains is for the cardinal's aide, a celibate lay brother named Julian, to go to Miss Alice's enormous Renaissance chateau and arrange the details. A shy God-intoxicated man, Brother Julian (John Gielgud) does not dream that he is keeping...