Word: totaled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other side of the ledger, the budget calls for an overall spending decrease of $3.8 billion. Some $300 million is trimmed from what budgeteers label "Major National Security" defense, atomic energy, stockpiling and foreign military aid, which together add up to $45.8 billion, 59% of the $77 billion total...
Answering a total of 15 questions in a little less than an hour, the President was at his best in paying personal tribute to men he has known-and most admired. One of these, said onetime West Point Halfback Eisenhower, was retiring Army Football Coach Earl ("Red") Blaik: "I've never known a man in the athletic world who has been a greater inspiration." Another was wartime colleague Winston Churchill: He was "great in the carrying of responsibility . . . You had to hang on tight to your basic conviction because the first thing you knew he would shove...
Complaint. Though embarrassed because a fuss was being made, and because they were being addressed by a total stranger, a few murmured shy agreement. A reckless one or two applauded these strong words, never before uttered aloud on the Underground. Passengers who had docilely left the train discovered what was going on and re-entered like lions. The helpless guard fetched the station master, and the intimidated station master fetched a policeman, who blandly said he could do nothing unless the passengers were disorderly, and clearly they were not. For half an hour the embattled mutineers ignored threats and blandishments...
...penetrate in force the arid "forbidden zones" of Algeria where the F.L.N. bases its units. Fortnight ago 12,000 French troops, supported by artillery and rocket-carrying fighter planes, surrounded and wiped out two companies of rebel troops. In one week the French claimed to have killed a total of 672 rebels at a cost of 46 French dead...
...turn out five watts. Before most of its polonium (half life: 140 days) is exhausted, SNAP III will generate as much current as 1,450 lbs. of the best chemical batteries available. For instance, the batteries of the Atlas satellite weighed 20 lbs., lasted 18 days, generated a total of 500 watt hours. SNAP III weighs 5 lbs., would generate 11,500 watt hours in 130 days...