Word: summing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lady Caroline, according to the butler, soothed him with the three blank checks and told him to fill them in for no more than $36,000-which he obeyed to the letter. "You are not going to get away with that sum for nothing," she added. "I expect to see you in Spain." Asked why he had been given such a sum by his mistress, the gentleman's gentleman presumed that "it was payment for services rendered . . . Makes me out a bit of a rogue, actually...
...sum, the Democrats are interested in spending more for social problems and creating jobs, while the Republicans are concerned about holding down the budget to fight the inflation that has so badly damaged the nation, beginning in the Johnson Administration. That is yet another reason why President Nixon believes that the voters in November will have "the clearest choice in this century...
...sum effect of the National Gallery's show is that the merits of Lehmbruck's last years were in form and the failures were in expression. Isolate the head of Praying Girl, 1918, and it is unremarkable. What makes the sculpture live is the brilliantly worked-out series of triangular voids defined by the armpits, the forearms and the slender torso; the body becomes a drawing in space...
When the hash-only users were weaned of their habit (it is not a true addiction), they showed no lasting ill effects, but nearly all of those who went in for multiple drugs had to be returned to the U.S. for psychiatric treatment. In sum, the Army doctors conclude, hashish may induce a severe, long-lasting mental illness in individuals who are predisposed to schizophrenia, especially if it is used simultaneously with other powerful drugs. Some of the effects may resemble those that result from physical damage to the brain. In any case, heavy use leads to severe lung damage...
...sum, The Candidate is not about the Kennedys, though their resonances are present; nor McCarthy, though whole incidents are openly borrowed from Larner's own campaign experiences; nor about McGovern, though George's campaign seems to have followed the same route as Bill McKay's. Finally, the film's central figure is nowhere as serious as any of these men, and the film fails to engage us importantly because of this