Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Speaking at a $125-a-plate dinner in San Francisco, his bulk pared from 193 Ibs. to a near-svelte 185 Ibs., California's two-term Democratic Governor Pat Brown vehemently accused Ronald Reagan's supporters of plotting a "revolution of the right." Appearing in a 30-minute statewide telecast, well tanned and decked out in a red-white-and-blue necktie, Republican Challenger Reagan charged that Brown had been "taken over by militant left-wing radicals." Thus, though the argy-bargy already sounded as familiar to most voters as a come-on-over radio commercial, the rivals...
...Kwangtung province, with a 200,000-man bulge directly across from Formosa. Surprisingly enough, there are no more than 200,000 soldiers along the entire southern rim of China, including the borders with Viet Nam and Laos. Of the 50,000 Chinese troops in North Viet Nam, the bulk are cadre and support troops; no major combat units are stationed outside Chi na proper...
...Billy. Since Surrogate Cox's decision, the executors have taken the position that the sisters have a free hand to spend a "reasonable" sum on the burial. But the sisters seem preoccupied with their legal battle to break Billy's will, specifically the part that left the bulk of the estate-made up largely of A.T. & T. stock and assorted real estate-to the Billy Rose Foundation, which he set up in 1958 for "nonprofit and exclusively religious, charitable or educational purposes...
...committed perjury or at least gave incorrect, damaging testimony in court to satisfy a personal spite; who disobeyed specific orders given by the one friend he seems to have retained and the one general who intervened in his behalf; who presumably planned the sacrifice of the lives of the bulk of his command in order to achieve a minor piece of personal military glory...
...bulk of the money has come from more than six million private donors, he said, Although no figures are available on the average size of the contributions, Lavin commented that "this is not one of those campaigns where 10 or 12 people give most of the money. We had support from millions of high school and college students...