Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gentlemen who have taken my pants down are sweet characters and I love every one of them. It is my sincere conviction that an unflagging application to the bulk of my critical work will aid them immeasurably in their eagerness to learn about hot Jazz...
...watch. Quintanilla, who picked for his subject the only two girls in the cast, was nicknamed "Goya." Painter Biddie and Actor John Qualen (of whom he did a portrait) played flute duets. After a ong conversation with Joan Crawford, Painter Fiene (whom Hollywood nicknamed "The Safe" because of his bulk) admitted that her legs were even more shapely than he had imagined...
...Spirit. To instill new spirit in his armies Weygand dismissed 15 generals and promoted seven younger colonels to be major generals-a move likely to produce more energy and brainpower. But if he could stretch his men and artillery far enough, he still was short of other things. The bulk of the French mechanized forces (maximum: three divisions), and all the British and Belgian, were in the fatal pocket. Worse still, the Allied Air Forces, as daily losses added up, were whittled lower & lower. Besides attrition, further weakening of the R. A. F.-to which Premier Reynaud paid glowing tribute...
...foot frame was quite a respectable size, until Professor Mather told him that the brontosaurus grew to a length of 95 feet. He thought the earth which he inhabited was pretty roomy, until he was told that all of its fellow planets have only one seven-hundredth of the bulk of the solar system, and even the sun, which contains all of the rest of the volume, is just a second or third rate star...
Driving in with the troops, Nazi finance officers found furniture, littered paper, empty safes, little more. Gone was most of Holland's gold (some $690,000,000) into hiding in the U. S. and Britain. Gone was the bulk of her vast holding of international securities ($1,076,000,000 in the U. S. alone); the last bundle of engraved paper to be rescued was lugged from Amsterdam by a British officer who pushed off from Ijmuiden to England in a commandeered motor boat after Amsterdam had fallen. Gone was her stock of diamonds: the last store, worth several...