Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...summer, making common cause with Communists and crypto-Communists, Lieut. Colonel Abdel Hamid Serraj, 31, gained the upper hand in the army, placed Syria's 25,000 troops under joint command with Nasser's, and pushed deals with the Soviet bloc that by last week brought the bulk of some 100 T-34 tanks, 200 armored personnel carriers and 20 MIG jets into the country. After the invasion of Egypt, Serraj blew up the Iraq Petroleum Co.'s pipeline that carries 80% of Iraq's oil across Syria to the Mediterranean, and sent a brigade...
...public's point of view, but there appears to be no ready solution which might come about in the next few years. It seems unlikely that the New York, New Haven, and Hartford will change their ways in the near future (the line now blames "inclement weather" for the bulk of its delays), and to start a system of twice-daily deliveries throughout the entire area is not presently feasible, according to Post Office authorities. Though such a plan would get the New York mail out regularly, it would also be quite costly...
...bulk of these recommendations is followed, particularly state aid to cities, Soloway maintains, the high property taxes, which now prevent new construction, could be substantially reduced
Into Hellfire. Demoralized by these tactics-"Our best weapon," said one Israeli, "was sheer effrontery"-the bulk of the Egyptian army in Sinai collapsed like a pricked balloon. "The first night of operations," Ben-Gurion told the Knesset, "we took Kuntilla after twenty minutes of resistance, Ras el Naqb near Elath after a brief engagement and Quseima after forty-five minutes . . ." Only once, at the crucial road junction of Abu Aweigila on the Jerusalem-Ismailia highway, did Egyptian armor and artillery succeed in stalling the Israeli advance (TIME, Nov. 12). Tough Moshe Dayan, dashing about Sinai in a command...
With the Russians had sailed a few members of the Hungarian team; they were stunned when they heard the news from their homeland, but did not know what to do. Olympic officials nervously awaited reaction from the arrival of the bulk of the Hungarian team. Meanwhile, the Olympic torch, lit in Grecian sunlight and flown south and east, was being carried by runners down the Australian continent. Australian Olympic Official W. S. Kent Hughes made a desperate plea to both athletes and spectators to save the games from politics. "Never before in the history of the modern Olympics," said...