Word: sums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lump sum of $3,000,000, a 1914 treaty granted the U.S. perpetual, exclusive rights to build a canal through Nicaragua...
Evidently judging the time appropriate for a reading on his health, the President instructed his physicians to issue a report, which came in the form of a question-and-answer document, prompted, it was explained, by questions that had been put to the White House in recent months. In sum, the report allowed as how the President takes a bourbon and branch water before dinner, swims occasionally, gets seven or eight hours of sound sleep, sometimes works in bed in the morning, and no longer smokes. Among other disclosures...
...novelist--as opposed to those whose real forte is the short story--and the effect of his writing is cumulative. Those accustomed to the spare prose and one-sentence characterizations of Hemingway and O'Hara may find his style wordy and flamboyant. But where the more journalistic writers can sum up a situation with a single detail, Roth creates a richer world by his very lack of conciseness...
...second year in succession, the dividend check I have received from the Harvard Cooperative Society has been less than half the sum due according to the total of my purchases as verified by receipts. I can report that this is merely the second year only because I did not begin saving receipts before then; however, the reason I started keeping them was because for several previous years my dividend checks seemed quite small compared to my recollections of purchases made. I am glad to say that in both years the Harvard Cooperative Society immediately and without question paid the amount...
Sugar Ray claimed the large round sum on the ground that Winchell's pufflicity implied "intimate dealings with gamblers, that plaintiff had been engaged in gambling orgies and that he was heavily indebted to various gamblers, shady characters and persons of ill repute." The item, he said, had caused him "great pain and mental anguish," and had held him up "to contempt and reproach...