Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Erwin Rommel's retreat from El Aghéila had begun with an orderliness that was almost sedate. There was the suspicion that he had already withdrawn the bulk of his army, leaving only enough troops for a bluff. He sprinkled his trail with land mines and booby traps* and loped off along the coast...
...found nationalism under Avila Camacho and war. Mexico's wholehearted war effort was testified to last week by the STational Defense Ministry. Summing up the military achievement, the Ministry forecast that by the end of next year 1,600,000 Mexicans will have had military training, the bulk of them as a citizens' militia, with weekly practice sessions. Day by day thousands of Mexicans not yet eligible for induction are volunteering. Consignments of equipment are arriving from the U.S. The Mexicans have already found a name for U.S. jeeps: they call them "las cucarachas...
...words. Work had begun on it 18 months ago, when the white-haired economist was appointed by the then Minister of Reconstruction, Arthur Green wood, to "survey . . . existing national schemes of social insurance and allied services . . . and to make recommendations." Sir William had written the bulk of his report in longhand. Now it was before the public, and the public was eating...
...Opponents. Critics of the Beveridge Report appeared an unimportant minority weighted against the bulk of national sentiment, but their potential strength forecast some stormy sessions in the scheduled post-Christmas debates in Parliament. They centered in the Tory Right, or Tory age as opposed to Tory youth (the latter, with the Liberals and Independents, were quick to back the plan) and the great insurance companies, which would lose much business by Sir William's proposals. But other potential opponents were small employers, who may find it hard to make the grade after paying their share of the contributions...
...seven and one-half years, WPA had spent $10½ billions and employed 8,000,000 persons with some 30,000,000 dependents. Long the butt of cartoonists, its more frivolous projects made the word "boondoggle"* an American idiom. But the bulk of its funds were spent in constructing 644,000 miles of roads, 77,000 bridges, 116,000 buildings (schools, city halls, libraries, hospitals, police stations, armories, courthouses, museums), and enlarging and improving 800 airports. WPA also published a series of state guidebooks, decorated many a public building with murals, restored many a historic shrine, sponsored tuberculosis research...