Word: summing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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President Nixon appeared on the last day and told the delegates that he plans to increase the budget for the Administration on Aging "nearly fivefold," bringing the sum to $100 million by 1973. He also promised that he would immediately begin to work on means of relief for elderly homeowners burdened by increasing property taxes. Delegates had earlier been disappointed when high-ranking Administration officials failed to deal with what old-age programs need most: an immediate, fresh infusion of federal money. They were pleased with Nixon's promises...
...work of early still photographers like Eadweard Muybridge, or art reproductions, movie stills, news flashes. Personality, existence itself, glints like a fish in dark water and is gone. Bacon is a singular draftsman, but his drawing has practically no descriptive function-it serves, instead, to tally a sum of distortions...
When Graves is playful, and he sometimes is, he is as cheerful and civilized as Auden. Some alphabetical intrali-gual fun in a poem called "H" produces as its last word the best word to sum up the quality that permeates this book...
...stewardess a note stating his demands. "I thought he was trying to hustle me," said the stewardess, Florence Schaffner. "I stuffed the note in my purse, and he motioned that I should take it out and read it." He wanted, upon arrival at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, the sum of $200,000 and four parachutes. Recalls Passenger Richard Simmons: "I saw one stewardess answer a call, and her face dropped. She looked bewildered and gulped. I guess she learned what was happening then...
Unpleasant Surprise. Wright's troubles apparently started in October 1963, when he witnessed a will for Mrs. Shirley Pierce. The will named him as executor. After Mrs. Pierce died in November 1964, Wright sold her house to his father-in-law for the modest sum of $5,000. Only two months after the sale, the father-in-law resold the property...