Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...policemen had to carry the terrified torpedo to the squad car that whisked him to District Attorney O'Dwyer. Once his 250-lb. bulk was larded into a chair before the District Attorney, Vito Gurino, slavering, quaking, poured out his confessional. For almost seven months he had had no one to confide...
...Association of American Railroads flashed an order to western and southern lines to return long flat cars (used to carry heavy steel beams) to the eastern roads, where the great bulk of steel traffic originates. This may foreshadow orders for new freight cars, which take a lot of heavy steel...
...great bulk of the registration was run off in the morning, according to the proctors in Memorial Hall, and even at the most crowded times of day the entire proceedings went off without a hitch...
...last week the stature of destroyers grew. They became much more than busy little sea shepherds. Psychologically they were projected to the bulk of battleships; they became a new hope of victory, a pledge that Britain was not alone, a shock to Axis complacency-all by the simple fact of a horse trade. The U. S. swapped 50 "over-age" flush-decker destroyers for eight Atlantic bases...
Sumner started his professional life as an Episcopal clergyman. But nine years after his graduation from Yale he went back there as professor of political and social science, started compiling a great mass of anthropological data which comprises the bulk of Folkways. In it he covered the origin and evolution of marriage and family, religion, government, abortion, infanticide, social codes, crime & punishment, slavery, patriotism and chauvinism, labor, wealth and 1,001 other facets of human society. Many surviving mores (a term he himself brought into common scientific usage) were irrational, often harmful, and he said so savagely...