Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...organize a central Mozart Festival Bureau, as a kind of musical traffic cop. Movie men are dreaming up a biographical film, while elsewhere, scholars are toiling at a new, complete edition of the master's music. Mightiest of Mozartean memorials is a project to record the bulk of all his compositions. It is being undertaken by Holland's giant Philips Phonographic Industries (U.S. outlets: the Epic and Columbia labels...
Most whites seemed not to mind: they would simply be asked to carry an identity card which the police would not ask them for anyway. Not many of the blacks cared either, for the bulk of them already are numbed from years of carrying cards, passes and permits, which the police demand to see almost daily. But for many of South Africa's 1,000,000 Coloreds, half-caste descendants of the days when Boer settlers took Bantu and Bushman mistresses and wives, Population Registration spells tragedy. Thousands are being reclassified as "natives" (i.e., blacks...
...Mirror, biggest daily in the world (circ. 4,725,122). The well-written Manchester Guardian (circ. 156,154) and the Daily Telegraph (circ. 1,048,776) are slowly picking up readers, but the force of their voices is muffled by the nation's popular dailies, which provide the bulk of the news that Britain reads...
Then his cousin, a maiden lady, died, and left the bulk of her $230,000 estate to her elderly solicitor, one Frederick Harry Nye. Wintle brooded restlessly, concluded that Nye had somehow done his sister and himself out of the money. Lawyers told him he had no case in law. Undaunted, Wintle took action. He called up Nye, told him he was "Lord Norbury," and asked Nye to come to an apartment in Hove. Nye went. As 71 -year-old Law yer Nye related it in court last week...
...picture of tranquillity. He never makes an unnecessary move. Take away the uniform, and he would look for all the world like a displaced Buddha in calm contemplation. But the fans sit up when he waddles to his place behind the plate. A remarkable transformation takes place: the somnolent bulk becomes a quick and agile athlete. After he has strapped on the "tools of ignorance,"* hunkered down in the close confines of the modern catcher's box, he is the heart of the team. The pitcher waits for his signals. (Earlier, team and manager have talked over opposing batters...