Word: bulkier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vientiane, the administrative capital, Russian is now heard almost as much as French, the language of the country's colonial rulers for 60 years. Soviet advisers are often seen riding side by side with Communist Pathet Lao officials, looking even bulkier than usual beside the slight Laotians...
With the butterfly, however, knot making is a bit more difficult. The material is bulkier, wider, more difficult to pull through a knot. Many stores offer illustrated instructions on the proper method-which is not much different from tying a shoelace or anything else tied in a bow shape. Still, retailers say, younger men wearing bows for the first time prefer the already-tied clip...
...note for those with bulkier billfolds: the French food at Chez Jean (1 Shepard St.) tingles the taste of even those cosmopolitans finicky for delicacy. You couldn't say as much for Chez Dreyfus (44 Church St.), but there it is the customers that make the going or the gossiping good. President Bok eats there on his working days--how regularly that is is hard to say--and he tends to favor chopped sirloin with mushroom sauce (during a hot summer...
...weighing from 5.6 oz. to 9 oz. Only one inch thick and capable of being tucked into a shirt pocket, they produce remarkably true color prints that are one-third again as large as those processed from the old-style Instamatics, which were more than three times bulkier. The more expensive models automatically control exposure and tell photographers when to use a flash cube. Next week Kodak will turn out the one-millionth new pocket camera, and company chiefs hope to sell 4,000,000 during the first year. So far, they cannot keep up with demand, and there...
...year by using less expensive paper and fewer colors for tickets, timetables and entertainment programs. The little red slip-socks, which once were parceled out on all Red Carpet flights, are now limited to overnight trips. Passengers' skis are stored in polyethylene bags instead of bulkier and costlier corrugated cardboard boxes. Napkins are no longer rolled inside a ring but, to save labor costs, are packed together with silverware in sealed plastic bags. Disposable paper has replaced linen for the headrest covers...