Word: totalled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...number of defectors to the Saigon government has risen from 11,248 that year to 43,599 so far this year. Much of the big jump in 1969 comes from a sharp increase in the Mekong Delta, where ARVN troops have made new, deeper sweeps. The countrywide total for October was 5,615, the largest ever in a single month...
...President, in his keynote address to the delegates, professed total commitment to eliminating hunger. He said: "On May 6, I asserted to the Congress that 'the moment is at hand to put an end to hunger in America itself for all time.' Speaking for this Administration, I not only accept that responsibility, I claim the responsibility." In the same speech, however, Nixon betrayed a certain insensitivity in an anecdote that unwittingly underlined the vast gulf between the affluent and the hungry in America. Once when he went on a diet, Nixon told the meeting, "the doctor had told...
Past Christmas observances in Marblehead's seven elementary schools (total enrollment: 2,270) differed little from those in other school systems. Children made window decorations, trimmed trees, sang carols and exchanged gifts at classroom parties. To some parents among the town's substantial Jewish minority, however, the celebrations seemed too Christian in character. Seeking to head off complaints, School Superintendent Aura W. Coleman met in November with four rabbis, four Protestant ministers and a Roman Catholic monsignor. They drew up a statement that Christmas observances should "avoid using subject matter of a theological or symbolic nature which might...
...Administration announced yesterday that rebates for meals missed by fasting students will total over...
...these qualities - which make Unruh look like any other politician running for any other office - are overbalanced by an important undercurrent in his intellectual life. It is an undercurrent which makes Unruh more than the sum total of his past and his appearance. It is the undercurrent of experience, the education of Jesse Unruh, which smoothes down the rough spots in Unruh's very tangible past...