Word: bulked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dogs were her life, but Miss Capers fretted constantly about what might happen when Brickland and Sunny Burch no longer had her to care for them. Who could possibly love them as she had? Determined that her dogs should not suffer, Miss Capers wrote a will-leaving the bulk of her modest estate to the Humane Society of Western Pennsylvania and stipulating that Brickland and Sunny Burch be put to death...
...time since the 1929 stock market crash. So revealed the Internal Revenue Service last week. Its 1960 statistics, the latest compiled, show that 306 Americans had an adjusted gross income of more than $1,000,000 v. 513 in 1929 (and a mere 20 in 1932). The bulk of the wealth is in New York City, which had 87 millionaires-in-one-year; Philadelphia had 59, Chicago 38, and San Francisco and Boston 25 each...
...more irritating is the sheer bulk of rules. "There's a rule for this cigarette," one girl protested, "there's a rule for this rug, there's one for that piano, there's one for this tapestry...
This is the year of the tax bill, as 1962 was the year of the trade bill, and many observers here are saying the Administration will sacrifice the bulk of its welfare spending measures if it can secure passage of its tax proposals. The service corps will certainly face opposition from Southern Democrats and conservative Republicans. And it might not receive the vigorous Administration support it needs to pass Congress...
...peace movement, which includes the bulk of the radicals in the country, has been virtually silent since October. The Brandeis Justice last week published an article by the head of the campus peace group describing the "profound sense of despair" that has settled over the peace movement. Tocsin is struggling to recover, but its continued effectiveness is still in doubt...