Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Symbolized by this puppet Pauline was the bulk of last week's "popular" opposition to conscription. Among the articulate minorities which frightened Congress were many sincere, substantial, respected groups. But in sum they made as weird a hash as was ever dumped on Washington...
Probability, however, does not run to extremes. Before Britain could be beaten there is every likelihood that part, perhaps a substantial part of the British Fleet would be lost in the fighting around the British Isles. Even if the bulk of the British Home Fleet should be surrendered, units stationed in the Mediterranean, colonies and dominions, might well escape German hands. The practical hypotheses fall into three classes...
With a volunteer crew, Bristowe entered a twin-motored ship's launch. Starting far offshore, it purred in quietly to the steel harbor net, which it passed over safely. Through the thick darkness Commander Bristowe felt his way undetected to the looming bulk of the Richelieu, and around under her stern. There to damage the giant's propellers and steering gear, his men put overboard a batch of depth charges so powerful that, when they went off, the harbor-heaving concussion knocked dead both of Bristowe's launch motors. As French shouts, searchlights and anti-aircraft fire...
This week that fate was sealed, so far as France's new Government was concerned (see p. 20). But how many officers would obey orders issued under Axis duress and surrender their ships remained a major question. Bulk of the French Navy was believed to be in the Eastern Mediterranean. When the commandant of the naval base at Toulon announced that he and his men would fight on regardless of the armistices, that seemed a clue to the temper of French naval forces in the West. The French had been operating since September under direction of the British Admiralty...
...stated bluntly: ". . . The French were supposed to take care of the ground operations, while the Royal Air Force of Great Britain was to handle those pertaining to the air. The sudden threat against the Channel ports and the island itself has compelled the British to hold the bulk of her air power in reserve to stem the tide of invasion. ..." When this was written, it was not known for sure that Germany would try to crush France before invading Great Britain...