Word: sums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about $60 billion compared with this year's $53 billion to $54 billion. (In addition, Johnson will ask Congress for a $12.5 billion supplemental appropriation for the Viet Nam war, none of which will be counted in the new budget; he intends to spend $5 billion of the sum this year and spread the remaining $7.5 billion over several years.) Even with the expected increase, the remarkable thing about the Pentagon's budget is that it has risen at a much slower rate than the overall budget (see chart), indicating that on balance the U.S. taxpayer is paying...
...faced the tasks of presenting the respected and emulated Clutters in their farmland environment; graphing the individual backgrounds of the two parolees who systematically murdered then, for the actual sum of about fifty dollars; blending the many moods of the aftermath, and its ramifications; and recording the meaning of it all in the final confrontation between the murderers and the gallows. Not only did he have to create a simultaneity of tone and narrative in which the many active threads, biographical themes, and local vignettes would be balanced but evocative; he also had to discipline himself to a new kind...
...defamation judgment won by Mrs. Esther James, a widow whom Powell slandered on TV as a "bag woman" for gambling payoffs. Last week acting New York State Supreme Court Justice Maurice Wahl rewarded Powell's "monstrous defiance of the law" by awarding Mrs. James the whopping sum...
...chase, a drolly tangible version of the pursuit of happiness and the American Dream. And the French sex farce is logic run rampant, reason carried to an unreasonable and absurd extremity. That is why French sex farces are innately sexless: Descartes wrote them all. They begin with cogito ergo sum, and they rely not on seduction but sophistry, not on rolled-down beds but revved-up minds, not on fervid matings but frenetic misunderstandings...
This is not to say that everyone else is poor. True, the show tends to drag when Lithgow isn't on stage; but when he is, everyone sparkles. A play is more than the sum of the parts; with Lithgow there to set the pace, everyone improves...