Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seems certain that the bulk of the present proposal will be passed by the House. The five-cent non-local rate is the only major item in question. The Senate has stated that this will be only a temporary measure. It is interesting to note, however, that the raise from two cents to three cents in 1933 was also passed as a "temporary measure...
Lethal Gifts. The F.L.N. insists that the bulk of its arms do not come from Tunisia at all but are picked up in raids on French military posts in Algeria. But among the rifles found on dead or captured rebels, a high percentage are LeeEnfield .303s, which presumably come from the Suez Canal arms depots that Egypt seized from the British after the Suez invasion. Increasingly common, too, are old French small arms, apparently supplied by the Syrians, whose army has been recently re-equipped with up-to-date Czech weapons. Both Egypt and Syria, say French intelligence officers, ship...
Though dull and dowdy by U.S. slick-paper standards, the prospering weeklies reflect Britain's war-born hunger for higher living standards. For the middle-and working-class women who form the bulk of their readership, the magazines are handbag-crammed with counsel on beauty care, clothes, cooking, etiquette, interior decoration and romance...
...support for a demilitarized Tunisian-Algerian border patrolled by a force similar to the UNEF in Gaza. One obvious objection to this scheme: it would severely handicap the Algerian rebels by depriving them of their privileged sanctuary and would thereby damage Bourguiba's prestige with his countrymen, the bulk of whom ardently support the rebel cause. In Paris U.S. Ambassador Amory Houghton urged moderation on Felix Gaillard, and in Tunis Ambassador Lewis Jones did the same with Bourguiba. At week's end Secretary John Foster Dulles, who had summoned French Ambassador Herve Alphand to his home...
...cold wind swept over the thick dark grass outside, whistled through the moonlit Gothic stonework, the parapets, battlements, and pinnacles intricately crowning the buildings with medieval bulk and solemnity...