Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week Goldwater handily won the Illinois presidential primary with 512,616 votes against 205,690 for his only announced opponent, Maine's Senator Margaret Chase Smith. In so doing, he probably picked up the great bulk of Illinois' 58 convention delegate votes, although the primary is not binding. Yet Barry's win impressed hardly anyone, if only because Illinois had figured to be a real Goldwater stronghold and he got only a bit more than 50% of the total G.O.P. primary vote. This was mostly due to a rash of write-ins, including...
...scientific training, she rejected facts that weakened her case, while using almost any material, regardless of authenticity, that seemed to support her thesis. Her critics, who included many eminent scientists, objected that the book's exaggerations and emotional tone played on the vague fears of city dwellers, the bulk of the U.S. population, who have little contact with uncontrolled nature and do not know how unpleasantly hostile it generally is. Many passages mentioned cancer, whose cause is still mysterious. Who knows? suggested the book. Could one cause of the disease be pesticides...
...spokesmen remain resolutely optimistic-at least officially-that no new coup is in sight. The optimism is based on the fact that despite sporadic rumblings in the barracks, Khanh up to now has enjoyed the support of the bulk of the military. Perhaps the best thing that Khanh could do to preserve his position would be to become, if not precisely a strongman like Diem, at least like him in determination...
...feed lots for fattening, sold at stockyards, slaughtered, wholesaled and finally retailed-and each middleman sent the price a bit higher. Today, 110 supermarket chains sell almost 50% of all the meat eaten in the U.S. Some operate their own feed lots and slaughterhouses; the rest buy in bulk at favorable prices. By all the laws of economics and common sense, beef prices should be falling...
...Monogamist. The Cheever marriage is a subject of more than ordinary interest to their friends, seeing that the bulk of Cheever's work concerns somehow a vexation or a crisis in relations between husband and wife. The heart of the matter is probably best deduced from the fact that John Cheever, almost alone in the field of modern fiction, is one who celebrates the glories and delights of monogamy...