Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...apartment in Manhattan's far East 80s that Tambi shares with his pretty, Bombay-born wife, Sana Tyabjee. The first issue hit the bookstalls last month, at a cost of about $6,000, and an unsolicited angel, Dwight Ripley, "an American painter educated at Harrow," made up the bulk of the deficit. Tambi pays his contributors "according to need" at a top rate of $1.25 a line, but most of the poets in the first issue donated their poems. A soft-spoken man who chainsmokes Pall Malls and dresses in Indian fashion, Tambi bills his own services...
Crimson rugby knowledge beat Yale bulk on Saturday, as Harvard converted three penalty kicks to two by the Elis, winning 9 to 6 for the first victory over the Blue in three years...
...food fell off, the supports only encouraged production for the Government's bins. As of last week, the Commodity Credit Corp. had more than $9 billion of U.S. taxpayers' money (equal to the total U.S. budget of 1940) invested in surplus crops and crop loans, the bulk of it in wheat, corn and cotton...
They burst in on Hicks, beat him until he surrendered $1,200. Then they taped up their victims' hands and mouths and announced they would take them into the country and "make you tell us" where the bulk of the loot was hidden. As they were leaving the house, the captors decided to untape the men lest they seem conspicuous. At that, Hicks and Hamlett dashed in opposite directions yelling for the police. The two sleuths fled in alarm in Hamlett's car, quickly ditched it after a narrow brush with a police...
...Dangerous Age. The bulk of the novel begins in flashback one summer day in 1937 when Lucy Crown examines her nude body in the mirror and realizes she has reached the dangerous age: "There are the little secret marks of time on the flesh of my thighs. I must walk more. I must sleep more. I must not think about it. Thirty-five." Hubby Oliver still appreciates her ("You have a wonderful belly"), but he is preoccupied, as usual, with getting away from their lakeside summer place for a busy, productive week at the plant. Lucy is left with...