Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lull was reflected in South Viet Nam by battle statistics: the Viet Cong and their North Vietnamese allies suffered only 456 dead in the previous week-the lowest toll since January 1965-and even when U.S. air cavalrymen surrounded three Red regiments near Bong Son last week, the bulk of the Communist force slipped furtively away. The enemy battalion that was finally trapped put up a good fight-but reluctantly (see following story). The Reds were saving their strength for the monsoon, waiting for the rain-rich thunderheads that hamper American air strikes. And they were doing...
...Sail was forged in France in 35 pieces. Its 27-ton bulk took a ton and a half of nuts and bolts to hold it together and a four-ton concrete foundation. At present, it is the largest Calder in the Western Hemisphere. But not for long. The silver-haired tinker is already at work on a 65-ft.-high by 94-ft-wide stabile in unpainted stainless steel, to be set on an island in the St. Lawrence in time for the 1967 Montreal World's Fair. Its name...
...study, sponsored by the American Heart Association, is based upon measurements taken on Harvard undergraduates when they registered for lockers in Hemenway Gymnasium. Some of the figures date back to 1850, but the bulk of the data was collected over a forty year period after 1879. Later reports on marriage, number and sex of children, and data and cause of death are still being filed...
...segregated school system against nearly all legal and extralegal pressures. A Southern Negro who entered the first grade at the time of the Court's ruling will graduate this June having spent his entire public school career in a segregated school. At the present rate of desegregation the bulk of a generation of Southern Negroes will be denied its legal right to integrated education with truly equal facilities and teaching staff...
...conquered a deceptively relaxed idiom, and but for an occasional relapse into bluster ("The great wings sighing with a nameless hunger") uses that idiom most effectively. "The Fall of Troy," by Rachel Hadas '69, is a successful exercise in academic wit; her logic doesn't always carry, but the bulk of he poem rings true...