Word: summing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...resist some sort of involvement. "I had to put everything aside," he remembers, and "I went to Jerusalem." This uniquely complete novel is the result of Wiesel's pilgrimage. It undertakes nothing less than the telling of the story of one post-World War II Jew as the sum of all his people...
WHEN I use a word," Humpty Dumpty told Alice in Through the Looking Glass, "it means just what I choose it to mean-neither more nor less." To a layman, that might seem to sum up the spirit in which economists are now debating whether the U.S. is undergoing a "recession...
...This sum does not include some appropriations already approved by the City Council. With those included. City spending this year could come close to the $40 million mark...
...Freedom, the country's highest civilian award. Wyeth is also popular with Middle Americans, partly because of his meticulous realism. But the somber, empty America that he depicts is a long way removed from the Chamber of Commerce optimism that is often (and mistakenly) assumed to be the sum total of Middle America's taste. Wyeth's America is often locked in a wintry cold, but even in summer the sun seldom shines full strength on the lonely fishermen, hired men and country women who inhabit it. They are stolid, they endure, but they are closer...
...mushroomed after the Soviets' first Sputnik in 1957. From 1958 through 1965, federal expenditures for basic research increased at an annual rate of 19%, climbing from $"1 billion to $3 billion. For the next five years, however, the average increase was only 5.5% -boosting the annual sum to its present $4 billion-and that has been barely enough to keep up with inflation...