Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second of three Oliver Wendell Holmes Lectures, Gellhorn, a professor of Law at Columbia University, said that congressmen now handle the bulk of citizens' grievances -- over 200,000 a year. But, he argued, they are not in a position to criticize the government quickly, impartially, and effectively...
Leaving the bulk of the speechmaking to his lieutenants, he has stayed mostly in London, saving himself for a big push during the last ten days before the March 31 election date. He did, however, make one notable excursion into the traditional blooding ground of British politicians, the Rag Market in Birmingham. There he had barely stepped onto the podium in the huge underground concrete hall when an especially rabid band of hecklers shrieked so loud and so long that Wilson could not be heard above the din. When police waded into the crowd to restrain the troublemakers, Wilson waved...
...hardly worth the hangover it cost Runyonesque Rabelaisian Toots Shor, 62, who had lumbered down from his Manhattan diner for the party. Packing up the day after, big Toots tripped on a hotel carpet, performed a dive of a high degree of difficulty and belted his 250-lb. bulk down onto the floor...
...famed owner, "M. Soule saw to it that there was a bottle of Romance Conti at his table. Two of his favorite dishes are poulet mascotte and filet tie boeuf pe-rigourdinc." And so in Soule's will, filed for probate in Manhattan-and leaving the bulk of his estate of more than $1,000,000, including proceeds from the eventual sale of Le Pavilion and his newer Cote Basque, to his widow Olga and sister Madeleine-he bequeathed "a watch to my dear friend J. Edgar Hoover," the FBI's bonded epicurean...
...Purchase of huge Japanese bulk carriers of oil and ore if the Japanese buy the oil and ore that the ships would carry...