Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...left their training camps in Honduras and established new bases inside Nicaragua. Their aim has been to resupply troops in the northern province of Jinotega. While still small in number, the camps are becoming an important adjunct to the air-supply operations that furnish rebels in Nicaragua with the bulk of their food and weapons...
...first room of the exhibit contains worksdating from the 1850's through the early 1870's.This was a period of great social upheaval inRussia, culminating in the freeing of the serfs in1861. Nevertheless, the bulk of the populationcontinued to live in extreme poverty and hardship.Artists sought to convey the harsh realities ofpeasant life, to expose the grimness of themedieval legacy, by treating their subject matterwith a critical--and realistic...
...Crimson has already faced the bulk--and the bruisers--of its schedule. Harvard beat Brown, 14-8, in Providence, R.I., and then traveled to Ithaca, N.Y., three days later and promptly felled previously undefeated Cornell...
...might be tempted to say that not only the bulk of the schedule, but the most burdensome games on it are behind the Crimson. In addition to the two Ivy games, Harvard gets a warm-up tomorrow, when it travels to Nickerson Field to face Boston University...
Hagler hit him less but hurt him more. Leonard had weighed in that morning at 158, just half a pound lighter than the natural middleweight he was fighting, and after a day's sustenance had entered the ring at 163. But he would leave it weighing 150. The bulk he had added, more to withstand power than dispense it, melted as he went until Leonard was himself again -- tough and quick fisted, bright and quick witted but as small as a child. Sometimes he feigned exhaustion, keeping a right-hand lead at the ready, and other times he truly sagged...