Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democrat must pull the heartstrings with his pension plans and labor benefits, and the Republican has to do the same while covering his committments to the Associated Industries back in Swampscott for Swansea. But whatever their real beliefs, both Furcolo and Whittier must aim their pitches at the bulk of Massachusetts' voters, the second generation Americans who are just emerging from bondage in an urban slum...
...Blue. The trouble goes deeper than the quality of color. The black-and-white programs that make up the vast bulk of TV fare (80% on color-conscious NBC) often seem wan and whiskery on color sets. Color reception takes such keen tuning that many a would-be customer loses heart while the salesman fumbles. Moreover, color reception must be live to be good. In the West, where night network shows are often Kinescoped to meet the time differential, viewers complain that all the hues come out blue...
Nelson never even saw the $3,600,000 borrowed in its name. Munroe directed Heller to deposit the check in the bank account of Albert's Bellanca Corp., which used it to pay off the bulk of the Mastan debt. But Nelson had to start paying back the $3,600,000 loan in monthly installments of more than $100,000, including 12% interest...
...prepare breakfast in the house and eat dinner on a per capita basis. And with clever shopping, the small dinner allotment can be cut, as it was in Everett last year to 20 cents. Occasionally, such economy requires a drive to the open-air market in Haymarket Square for bulk purchases...
...bulk of the University's income came from three main areas: 25 percent from endowment fund, 23 percent from gifts, and 23 percent from tuition, board, lodging and other fees. The three major expenses were salaries of corporation appointees, 27 percent; wages, 31 percent; and equipment and supplies, 19 percent...