Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even in a town's later stages, the corporation is often unresponsive to the population's needs. The bulk of corporation employees are middle-class, while most town residents are working-class. This social gap, highlighted by corporation executives' reluctance to live in the new town, may lead to a breakdown of communications between the two groups. In many towns, residents have had to fight furiously to acquire facilities as elementary as public telephones or street lighting...
...ignored was the fact that Castro did not really create a peasant revolution in Cuba. Though the peasants supported and sustained his forces during the early fighting in the Sierra Maestra, the real turning point came when Cuba's urban middle class, which actually made up the bulk of Castro's army, suddenly began deserting Dictator Fulgencio Batista and sent the jittery strongman fleeing into exile...
Although a number of World War II historians have been suspicious of Sikorski's death,* Hochhuth could only claim that the bulk of the "evidence" is on file in a Swiss bank vault and cannot be revealed for 50 years. But what disappointed the opening-night audience in Berlin was a lack not of historical evidence but of dramatic talent. Soldiers came across as a static bore, filled with ponderous moralisms and unwitty aphorisms ("Marriage," says Churchill, "is love without longing") and totally lacking in tension...
...testimony, McConnell and his Navy counterpart, Admiral Thomas Moorer, had demanded air strikes on the 30-mile "buffer zone" between North Viet Nam and China, along with heavy attacks on Hanoi and Haiphong harbor. Since then, while bombers have not directly struck Haiphong's docks through which the bulk of North Viet Nam's war material moves, they have cut off rail and road links between the port and the rest of the country. The buffer zone and Hanoi itself have been hit sporadically, with pilots striking only at specific military targets and taking special care to avoid...
...great bulk of the capital's population was clearly unmoved by the militants' cause. The monks made a great to-do about the recommendation of the special elections committee that the national election be invalidated for irregularities, but another committee had already dismissed the charges and the Provisional Legislative Assembly is almost certain to approve the election results. Protesting the results anyway, some 300 students began smearing a large election sign with paint. Police quickly drove them away with swinging clubs, and the students marched off to Independence Square to commiserate with Tri Quang. In the busy Saigon...