Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sleek, blue Lancia with bright red wheels, pale-faced Dr. Alcide de Gasperi rode through Rome last week to the closing session of the interim consultative assembly. As the Foreign Minister's car passed the round, ancient bulk of the Castel Sant' Angelo, a pistol bullet smashed through the Lancia's front windows...
FOREIGN TRADE What are Japan's chances for a resumption of her once great foreign trade? What has happened to the zaibatsu, the handful of mighty industrialists who carried on the bulk of Japan's internal and external business? Last week, on these questions, TIME'S Chief Pacific Correspondent Manfred Gottfried reported from Tokyo...
...week of formal triumph over Japan, few citizens had the inclination to read the story of the first U.S. defeat, three years and nine months ago. The very bulk of the documents (130,000 words) was forbidding. The New York Times printed it all and sat down. Congressmen, before they had read it through, shouted that it was a "whitewash" or that it was incomplete. Harry Truman said that it proved everyone was to blame...
From the Iowa, anchored in Sagami Bay, TIME Correspondent John Walker radioed: "Off our port beam we saw the vast bulk of the holy mountain, Fuji, almost concealed in a wreath of clouds which could have been a mourning robe of traditional Japanese white - the color of death." The advance guard of airborne invaders landed at Atsugi; their transports disgorged aviation engineers, jeeps, gasoline, rations, radios, to prepare for the grand entry of the 11th Airborne Division and of MacArthur himself. Between Atsugi and the fleet was the Emperor's seaside palace at Hayama, destined to be MacArthur...
...break-up of Latin." Some of the results are rooted in the New Deal and the Depression -e.g., forgotten man, economic royalist, horse-and-buggy days, boondoggling-as are the more ephemeral third-termite and That Man, and the alphabet soup of government bureaus (NRA, TVA). But the bulk of heavy coinage has come from a slew of irresponsible, word-happy inventors, including such Menckenian heroes as Variety's late Jack Conway (who coined baloney, S.A., high-hat, pushover, payoff, bellylaugh, palooka and scram) and the inventor of slanguage itself, Walter Winchell...