Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Their human figures were even more striking. Though none was more than 7½ inches high, they managed to give a sense of bulk: a muffled hunter bends, awkward and burdened, in his fur parka; an Eskimo mother kneels with her child swaddled on her back...
Wildly cheered on by some 6,000 fellow townsmen, including his parents and sister, versatile Milt alternately sped and powerhoused his graceful bulk through the decathlon's exacting tests. He sprinted the fastest 100-meter dash of his life (10.5), and also took first in the 400-meter run, high jump and shot-put. Going into the second day with a big 717-point lead, Milt won the 110-meter high hurdles by nearly a second in 14.3, later loped heavy-footed through the 1,500-meter run to pick up a final 134 points...
...Pinned down the bulk of Red China's army, which otherwise might have overrun all Southwest Asia. If Korea had not been resisted, Japan itself might now be gone...
...Cautious? Reduced to 35 planes and minus two carriers, Ozawa hightailed it out of the Philippine Sea. Yet, since he had saved the bulk of his 55-ship fleet, Spruance and Mitscher felt small joy. Had Spruance been overly cautious? No, says Morison, he had the Saipan beachhead to think of. "Military men never get any credit for guarding against dangers that might occur yet do not; but they are quickly 'hanged' if they fail adequately to guard against dangers that do occur-witness Pearl Harbor." Moreover, Morison argues, the battle was fully as decisive as Ozawa thought...
Adenauer's Nightmare. But the Kremlin's new rulers, shrewdly turning necessity into advantage, and defense into offense, had also made the most dramatic maneuver yet in their global peace offensive. One obvious intention: to make the prospect of German unity seem so real that the bulk of West Germany's 30 million voters this September will oust the government of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, who opposes unification until West Germany is rearmed and allied to NATO...