Word: amounting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Initial checks for the same amount have been mailed to the headquarters of Representatives John Carroll of Colorade and Helon Gahagan Douglas of California, who are running for the Senate...
Pointing out that these charges of treason--for that is what the Senator's charges amount to--are false will not stop a McCarthy. To shut him up, the nation must first put an end to the hysteria that has produced him. It must dam up the stream of unreasoning fear and worry which is now lapping at the base of so many minds. This is the fear that has found its expression in the silencing of teachers and television stars, of writers and speakers. It is the fear that censors a Lattimore and lets a McCarthy orate at will...
Gold stated that "the largest amount came from scores of small contributors," and that the group expects a larger sum to come in during the next week...
...generous benefits (retirement plans, stock-participation programs, etc.), McDonnell has kept morale high, has never lost a day's production through strikes. Neither has he lost his Scotch canniness; for the annual Christmas party, he figured out that exactly twelve ounces of eggnog per person was the right amount to insure conviviality without excessive hilarity-and ordered the whisky accordingly. As a result of such dollar-watching, his overhead, says the Navy, is among the lowest in the business...
...Student Council usually has a lot of difficulty getting things done. Last year it had an inordinate amount of trouble working efficiently. The confusion in which it ended the year was enough to provoke a partially serious anti-Student Council referendum, and to cause a series of shameful election fiascos...