Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...situation, in some respects, was comparable to building an expensive new house appointed with everything but electricity. Foundation, overhead, framework, maintenance swallowed up the bulk of the costs. Comparatively small expenditures after that were what provided real utility...
...bulk of the money came from donations in the tens of thousands of dollars. Officials view as significant the success of the drive without any giant gifts...
...consumer helplessly dug down deep to keep the parity machine revolving -he made up the bulk of the population, yet by some strange unbalance in Washington, he had almost nothing to say about how the contraption should run. For most of what he bought in the grocery store, and much of his clothing, he paid twice-once in high prices over the counter, again in taxes to finance the farm-support program to keep the price up. From his taxes came the money for such subsidy payments as the $3,759,000 paid to Russell Giffen of Fresno, Calif...
...Good Points. Unhappily, 1949-50 did not make up in brilliance for what it lacked in bulk. The most that could be said was that it had its good points and incidental graces and one or two peak moments. However controversial in theme, T. S. Eliot's The Cocktail Party offered the best new stage writing in years. And though Carson McCullers' The Member of the Wedding (winner of the Critics' Award) might have trouble proving itself a play, it too could take pride in much of its writing. Better still, both these very individual works, like...
...bulk of FDJ members may not always believe what the Communists tell them, but the trouble is that they do not believe anything else. Slowly, they are being worn into submission. The Communists have achieved a stranglehold on East Germany's younger generation-and they have no intention of letting...