Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...classified as secret, top-secret documents were inaccessible to him. U.S. security officers say his informing was largely limited to casually acquired, uncertain dope and did not include information on current political maneuvers or military secrets. Still, Scarbeck's disclosures cannot be passed over too lightly, since the bulk of espionage is the accumulation of many bits and pieces, such as those that he furnished, in a total picture of enemy operations. Scheduled to go before a federal grand jury this week, Scarbeck faces a jail term of up to ten years...
Writer's Lot. There is no chronology to Hear Us, and some of these episodes are merely hinted at. One piece, The Forest Path to the Spring, is masterly-a vibrant nature idyl that is in a direct spiritual descent from Thoreau's Walden. But the bulk of the book displays an occupational disease of 20th century writers : writing about writing and the writer's lot. In Elephant and Colosseum, Lowry tries the bulky device of symbolizing his work as an elephant, presumably patient, massive, mnemonic, with a final trumpeting of glory. In Strange Comfort Afforded...
...broad but unsolved questions underlie these three requests. One is the same choice facing all our NATO allies. Canada can continue the prevalent, "good-time-Charlie" attitude of letting the U.S. provide the bulk of the alliance's support and gamble that this is enough; or it can contribute more troops and foreign aid now to stave off disaster later. The first alternative is cheaper in the short-run; but if the second is necessary, the bargain is hardly worthwhile...
...short, Hadley is so concerned with showing how important arms control is that he neglects the equally critical problems of implementing it. He neglects the bulk of what Schelling and Halperin discuss--arms control itself...
...bulk operation has been very good," the dean stated, "but like any business corporation it has its problems--perhaps more than most. We expected the operation to be tough...