Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Riviera, followed by three months in London for "the Season." No gentleman was seen in London after the end of July, when the Prince of Wales went to Cowes for the yachting, followed by a month or so in a German spa, where he tried to reduce his immense bulk by dieting and taking the waters. Around October he went to Abergeldie for a month of grouse shooting, and he finished up the year back at Sandringham where he spent his own and the Princess's birthdays. He found the intrusion of political affairs intensely annoying. "Another General Election...
...total of 70 New England area volunteers were accepted for the project. Mrs. Zellner said she expected New England, New York, and California to provide the bulk of the volunteers...
...Sceptre. The handsome American compact will continue almost unchanged. Abernethy has no intention of abandoning the image of making "sensible cars" that Romney created for the company, but, being a sensible type himself, he wants to have models in the bigger class where affluent Americans are now spending the bulk of their auto dollars...
Bowl & Blood. In many religions, man uses icons to guide his meditations. Nepalese cloth paintings often contain mandalas, magic diagrams of the cosmos without and the self within. One such (see opposite page) focuses on the mighty mediating god, Mahakala, whose blue bulk is crowned and garlanded with severed heads. The worshiper is expected to make a visual pilgrim's progress from the edges of the mandala, where he buries his worldliness in stylized cemeteries showing scenes of torture and immolation. Four godlings representing the cardinal compass points help him purge external reality. At the center Mahakala waits, clutching...
What Wilkinson feared most has happened. Its success first lured such U.S. blademakers as Schick (Krona Plus) and American Safety Razor (Personna and PAL) into the stainless field. Then came Gillette, with its great bulk, big name and huge marketing facilities. By now reluctantly committed to a fight it did not want, Wilkinson set up additional manufacturing operations in Britain, Germany, Canada and the U.S. Needing new capital to pay for this expansion, it brushed aside more than 1,000 offers from outside firms to merge or associate with it in favor of putting its stock up for sale. Although...