Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...compromise on Kashmir but felt he was not strong enough to convince his own government. Ayub added, "I told him that, as Prime Minister of India, it was his duty to build public opinion in favor of a satisfactory solution. He might be criticized by some elements, but the bulk of the Indian people would thank him for relieving them of a great anxiety." Ayub concluded that it was impossible to reach an agreement with the ambivalent and indirect Shastri. They settled into a tenuous coexistence that was punctuated by gunfire earlier this year in the border wasteland...
...shaken with emotion, arose. "As a Jew and a white man, I hear you," he said. "What do you want us to do? What on earth do you want me to do?" Jones hit a nihilistic bottom. "Do, man? There's nothing you can do!" Nonetheless, the bulk of whites, some consciously forgetting and some consciously remembering their fears after Watts, will continue to do something. But the Negro himself must do as much...
...Another 20,000 British lawyers (solicitors) do the vast bulk of legal work that never reaches courtrooms. Of those, 750 are women...
...force troops today, among them an estimated 10,000 North Vietnamese regulars who have infiltrated the South; there are also 80,000 to 100,000 local guerrillas and 18,000 supply troops, for a total of 145,000 to 165,000-plus an undetermined number of informers. The great bulk of the 450,000-man North Vietnamese army has not been in action...
...errors in these sentences: "Dave Beck pleaded innocent today to a charge of grand larceny." "At least twelve hawks are making their homes atop city skyscrapers and zooming down to snatch pigeons." "Mr. Smith was changing a flat tire when a second car collided with his automobile." "The bulk of Mr. Getty's fortune is self-made...