Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appointed a five-man committee to investigate the charges. Critics claim that Sarit siphoned $12 million out of the earnings of the national lottery and channeled it into pseudonymous bank accounts. No one denies that the money disappeared, but there is no evidence so far that Sarit used the bulk of the funds for himself. His "unorthodox way of handling finances," say his defenders, was caused by the fact that the slow National Assembly often delayed budgetary requests; as a result Sarit used the secreted funds for pet economic projects, intelligence operations, and various political moves he wanted accomplished...
Pedagogical Planks. Hartford began buying art twelve years ago, after deciding to build his museum. Now he has some 80-odd pictures and a few sculptures. His possessions, following his credo, are less esthetic choices than planks in a pedagogical platform. The bulk of the collection dates from before 1900. There are quaint, good things, such as Sir Edward Burne-Jones's eight pre-Raphaelite panels of the Perseus legend. There are great artists with bad works: a Degas copy of a Poussin, and a grotesquely tortured Orozco Slave...
...Doctors. But the bulk of the defense case was based on testimony from that trial genus known as the expert witness (see THE LAW). First was Yale Psychologist Roy Schafer, who had given Ruby ten psychological tests after his arrest. The results? Said Dr. Schafer: "He gave a rather weighty indication of emotional instability." Schafer's conclusion: "There' was organic brain damage and the most likely nature of it was psychomotor epilepsy...
Yesterday morning the line of people waiting for tickets stretched from the Loeb theatre lobby out to Brattle St. Even with this demand for tickets, however, the Loeb ticket office says that the bulk of sales came on mail orders from large school groups...
...This penchant for precise numerical prediction is most interesting when focused on the civil rights bill, for Higgs has displayed an incredible touch for Washington politics. Last summer he and several law students drew up an "ideal" civil rights bill, which seasoned observers ridiculed as utopian. Last month the bulk of that bill sailed through the House without a hitch. Higgs had picked his allies cannily, cultivating the friendship of Democratic Congressman Corman and Congressmen McCulloch and Lindsay...