Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bulk of World War II veterans will not reach retirement age until around 1990, and to many of them Demagogue Rankin's bill simply meant filling up the gravy boat again for World War I servicemen. Such veterans' groups as the V.F.W. and American Veterans Committee howled in dismay. Even the American Legion leadership, which has sometimes mistaken the public treasury for its own, remained guardedly silent...
Hams who talk to each other this week will soon confirm their chats by an exchange of postcards called QSLs. To cut down on postal expenses, hams have formed central bureaus in several countries. The bureaus distribute incoming cards and mail outgoing ones in bulk...
...bulk of this sum goes toward perfecting a gadget which promises to do away with the cumbersome iron lung. The new device, developed by Dr. James L. Whittenberger, assistant professor of Physiology, keeps a patient with paralyzed lungs breathing by stimulating certain parts of his brain with electricity...
Meanwhile, the bulk of Li's tattered Nationalist regime streamed into raucous, reeking Canton, where it went through the motions of setting up shop...
...bulk of the book is devoted to the twin impulses: self-assertion and self-transcendence. Koestler believes that the western world owes its troubles to the "hypertrophy of the self-asserting drives with a corresponding decline of the self-transcending impulses." There were times, he holds, when man was more capable of being both self-assertive and self-transcending (in the Greek and Renaissance civilizations) and by being a bit of both he managed to be a more balanced, stable creature. But he is sure that today man is either overactive or over-passive-or a dissatisfied neurotic who plunges...