Word: bulled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Leslie Stevens' Bullfight proved to be a colorful splash of fiery vignettes, effectively backed by clever lighting, a ballet-drilled cast, exotic . costumes, and an ominous musical background of Spanish guitars. The story concerns two brothers of a proud Mexican family-one an eager young beginner in the bull ring, the other a has-been turned thug and procurer. A victim of his own bitterness, the elder brother (well played by Cinemactor Kurd Hatfield) ruins everyone around him, rapes his sister-in-law (Loretta Leversee), and even accidentally causes his younger brother's death in the ring...
...Jewish midshipman at Annapolis was marked by some unpleasantness. But Rickover's temperament also caused some of his troubles. Rebellious, secluded, intellectual, determined to make high marks, he did not fit the conformism of the Academy. He took little part in athletics; he preferred study to bull sessions; he did not "drag" (date...
...reconciliation of historical opposites, under the joint sponsorship of the count-the Bourbon-Orléans pretender-and the retiring President of the Republic, Vincent Auriol. Among the 60 neatly drawn and pleasantly colored watercolors of military life in the U.S. were Fording the River at Bull Run, a sylvan scene of a Union convoy along a quiet road, and an exciting pictorial account, called Pickets Surprised at Peck's House, of a pistol-range fight between Union cavalry and a Confederate outpost in Virginia during the winter...
...prevent the picadors, who lance bulls from horseback, from tooling their lances so that they weaken the bulls too early in the fight, the new decree requires that the steel points be impounded for 48 hours before the corrida. It also requires the bullfighter to face the bull with only one cape-waving helper, instead of the many formerly used to confuse the animal. Bulls now must be bigger, and to save them needless, heavy-handed torture, bullfighters must limit their passes to twelve minutes and kill within six minutes. If they fail, the bulls will be released from...
That irascible old Bull Mooser, Harold Le Claire Ickes, was 58 when Franklin Roosevelt was elected President in 1932; he had put in nearly 30 years fighting for lost political causes, and he seemed almost taken aback at finding himself on the winning side at last. He recovered quickly. In 13 years as Secretary of the Interior, Honest Harold (a nickname that made him squirm) became a national institution. His bristling incorruptibility, his old-fashioned reformer's views, his endless suspicions of all other politicos, his Donald Duck temper and acid-tongued campaign speeches made him a figure unique...