Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many a Congressman doubted that the bill would ever pass, if for no other reason than that it meant more taxes. Among those who hoped they were right were 1) the bulk of physicians, who mortally hate & fear any more entanglement with government; 2) the many privately managed and non-profit associations for hospitalization and medical care which are rapidly spreading their health service over the country and financing it from employes' voluntary payroll deductions...
Speaking to the press, General Eisenhower vigorously defended his Army against growing criticism from back home. The bulk of the occupation job had been done well, he snapped. Mistakes had been made, but they would be corrected. Nazis would be weeded out, would not be permitted to vote in the coming German elections. Growled Eisenhower: "A Nazi is a Nazi, and I hate Nazis...
Once past this reconversion danger, the committee estimated that the nation must provide 53,000,000 to 56,000,000 jobs -7,000,000 to 10,000,000 more than before the war. The bulk of these new jobs must be in private industry. But the committee put the responsibility for a healthy economic climate on labor also and, most of all, on the Federal Government...
...feudal house of Mitsui. The U.S. has found that Mitsui has a financial finger in some 173 companies making everything from paper to airplanes. Mitsui was hard hit by bombs, losing 50% of its flour-milling capacity, 30% of its light-metals capacity, 40% of its chemicals and the bulk of its trading fleet...
...mealy-mouthed writers, not her realists, who made "fornication [not] a detail (as it is in life)" but "the staple of the book." Readers were not accustomed to such blunt talk in the '80s, and under Henley's editorship, one magazine after another lost the bulk of its subscribers...