21 March 2013

in toto

[in toh-toh]

adverb Latin

– in all; completely; entirely; wholly.

Example sentences

1. Such proposals should be subject to specific criticisms, rather than rejected in toto.

2. Bobby Kimball was in Toto, then ex Toto, then in Toto.

3. Dorothy realising she was no longer in Kansas, nor anywhere in the known world in toto, put her trust in Toto to keep her safe and lead her home in toto.

Today’s aphorism

To be one’s self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.

– Irving Wallace

On this day

21 March 1960 – Sharpeville Massacre in South Africa, when Afrikaner police open fire on unarmed protestors in front of the police station, killing 69 people and wounding 180. In South Africa, every 21 March is a public holiday to celebrate human rights and commemorate the Sharpeville massacre.

21 March 1963 – President John F. Kennedy orders the closure of federal penitentiary, Alcatraz (The Rock).