Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although Chekhov is Russia's supreme playwright, he did not devote the bulk of his efforts to the theatre. He was a physician, but spent most of his time turning out a stream of short stories--a field that paid well and paid quickly, important factors for Chekhov, who had a large family to support. In a life restricted to forty four years by the ravages of tuberculosis, he penned short stories totalling, I believe, close to a thousand. At any rate, he is universally considered Russia's greatest short-story teller, and by many the foremost practitioner...
Founded in October, 1966, the CLAO office is funded by the Office of Economic Opportunity and by the Harvard Law School. The bulk of CLAO's financing comes from the OEO, while the law school pays primarily for handling criminal cases, which Congress had forbidden...
Undoubtedly, this is how the bulk of the "little people" who filled City Hall felt, and this is why they found it impossible to react with anything other than anger to any action which appeared to hurt the chances for rent control...
...would hope not. Politically, the South Vietnamese have got to create a government that commands the loyalty and support of the bulk of the population and galvanizes it into selfhelp. I hope that American troop withdrawals will be at such a rate as not to generate a sense of insecurity in the government of South Viet Nam. There must be sufficient time for the South Vietnamese to be trained to stand up and fight for themselves. If they can't, well. . . that's that...
...Attacks. As Salvador's old C-47 unloaded its bomb on the Honduran capital, six World War II-vintage Mustangs, which comprise the bulk of El Salvador's air force, hit several Honduran garrison towns. Next morning, Hondurans wheeled out its eleven old, fold-wing Corsairs and sent them to bomb Esso oil tanks at two Salvadoran ports, Acajutla and Cutuco...