Word: sums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This sum is to provide the House Committee with some risk capital so that it could experiment with new activities, "freeing it to some extent from the need of promoting activities, such as mixers, which are merely certain to make money...
...thinks, unless the South Vietnamese forces prove their capacity to carry on the war indefinitely. They would require continued massive American support and that, Lodge believes, would be forthcoming-if at all-only with fewer draftees and more volunteers in a different U.S. Army. In sum, Lodge apparently feels, Hanoi more than ever hopes to dominate the South and discredit the U.S., thus advancing the cause of both international Communism and its own nationalism...
...sailors are now considering the Medford shore of the Mystic as well as a site on the Charles, Woodworth said. The proposed facility would cost $175,000. About one-third of that sum has already been pledged to the club, he said...
...German art lovers, the greatest curiosity was the St. Barbara altarpiece from Finland's National Museum in Helsinki-Meister Francke's earliest known work. Its eight richly painted panels sum up the characteristic ambiguities of Meister Francke's style. In The Flagellation of St. Barbara, the brutal, peasant faces and awkward, potbellied figures of Barbara's tormentors foreshadow the popular style of Bruegel or Bosch-though neither painter had been born when they were painted. By contrast, nothing could be more courtly than the boneless sinuosity of Barbara's figure, the vapid sweetness...
...sum, gradual U.S. disengagement could ease the U.S. into a new period of a more subtle, more imaginative Asian policy. It could also ameliorate the shock of the reverse that the U.S. has unquestionably suffered in Viet Nam. These are limited and intangible goals; to continue sacrificing lives and money for them a hard task indeed. But if these goals are achieved, they may at least help justify the sacrifices in lives and money already made during the long...