Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After Brownell's speech, Truman said that White was fired "as soon as we found out he was disloyal." When was that? The bulk of the information about White's spying was available to Truman in February 1946. Little new evidence against White was developed between that date and White's resignation 14 months later...
...greatest problem complain that the Amendment keeps them from extracting vital information. Those who think that controlling the investigations is the top problem in the country are just as discontented because people who use the Amendment often face social punishment as onerous as any jail sentence. The great bulk of American opinion lies between these two extremes. It is confused about the existence and extent of any Internal conspiracy, but sick and tired of hearing witnesses say: "I refuse to answer because my answer may tend to incriminate...
...President's program is the link between his party and his national duties. If he sincerely wants to effectuate his program he has an obligation to his party only insofar as his party supports him. Usually, the bulk of a President's support does come from this quarter. But in Eisenhower's case, he was not only elected by dissident Democratic voters: much of his support comes from Democrats in Congress. Those Republicans who have knifed the President in his efforts to push his program, he has no obligation to support...
Even the works of the usually inimitable Updike have ceased to shine, and only glimmer fitfully through the morose aura which surrounds the magazine. This is probably the result of understandable fatigue, since this joker has been responsible for the bulk of the magazine's readable contents over a period of nearly two years...
Mayor Joseph A. DeGuglielmo, CAA endorsed, isn't worried about the "threat" to PR. "I don't think PR makes that much difference to Cambridge," he opines. "Under a plurality system I'll get my bulk vote and combine with other strong candidates and we'll have what constitutes a machine. If that's what the voters want--hooray...