Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bulk of Pickett's strategy lies in the middleweight classes. So far he's won three out of four meets with Chandler wrestling 157 in the last two toughest. Where Chandler wrestles during the next two weeks depends on the strength of Anay and Springfield...
...social group stood out like the monument. Says she: "It really isn't society anymore." Nevertheless. Evie has adjusted herself to the new social bureaucracy, nowadays frequently prints items about such relative newcomers as Hostesses Perle Mesta and Gwen Cafritz. While Evie Gordon travels among the elite, the bulk of her public-and some of her best sources-are such people as doormen and automobile callers at Washington receptions. One denizen of the social world once said to her: "Oh Evie, somebody told me you had a piece about me today. We don't take the News...
...spite of all this, Lamont Library is not dear to the hearts of all undergraduates. The reverse is often the case. The bulk of criticism of the Glass Palace is aimed not at specific failures in its services, but at its personality...
...than a majority of the gross vote-some 52%-and was entitled to a bonus, which would have given De Gasperi 657 of the seats. He did not claim it. The Communists had cannily challenged 1,300.000 ballots-three times more than they challenged in the 1948 elections. The bulk of the questioned ballots are known to be legally pro-De Gasperi, entitling the democratic coalition to about 70 seats held by the Communists, and some scattered others. But the electoral reform law itself (called everywhere the "fraud law") was so unpopular, the risks and difficulties of trying to oust...
...that the Deputies vote flatly for him or against him, saying that it would be better to have a Cabinet crisis then & there, rather than another weak vote (marred by abstentions), such as the one that preceded Bermuda. Result: a solid vote of confidence, 319 to 249, with the bulk of the noes coming from Communists and Socialists. Conservative papers (Figaro, L'Aurore) proudly called the favorable vote a "reinvestiture." The left-wing Franc-Tireur mocked: "Here he is consenting once more to become Mr. Interim." No one needed to point out that, although M. Laniel's government...