Word: summing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gaulle began by emphatically assuring Frenchmen that they had never had it so good. "For France the year that has ended was, in sum, favorable. In contrast with other times which were cruel and agitated, and despite the alarmist cries of insatiable partisans, we have encountered no catastrophes. Quite the contrary...
...hour for a guaranteed 35 hours a week. The agreement's kitty permits a 25-year man to retire at 62, draw a $220 monthly pension for three years, $115 after that (when Social Security begins). If an I.L.W.U. man works until 65, he gets an additional lump sum of $7,920. If a machine knocks a man out of work, he continues to draw 35 hours of pay a week. The deal is so good that last year the I.L.W.U. had some 25,000 applicants for 2,600 openings...
...Wisdom. The sum of O'Hara's wisdom could be denigrated as nothing more than commonplace knowledge that comes with age. His snobs, after all, only face the fact that, in age as in youth, life chooses our friends for us, and it is wise to make the best of them. But in reaching backward to follow their progress, O'Hara is able to dip into the sounds and sights and thoughts of four decades of American life. "The United States in this century is what I know," he explained not long ago, "the way people talked...
...minimum of $5000 will have to be raised in order to receive official University sanction, since Harvard refuses to maintain an endowed lecture for any smaller fund. Once this sum is pledged, the lecture would still require approval by the Corporation...
...born. The townsmen have known great poverty all their lives, and they hope that her lover of 50 years ago--Alfred Ill, played by Christopher Medearis--can persuade the old lady to give them some money. The old lady agrees to help--she will contribute the phenomenal sum of "one billion"--on one condition. It seems her former boyfriend had made her pregnant, and then denied before a court of law that he was responsible. As a result she was forced to leave town, 17 years old and seven months pregnant. Starting as a prostitute, she married nine rich...