Word: bulled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bullfight fans hold that the contest between man and bull is not sport but drama. Gringos, who often find themselves cheering the bull, insist that whatever it is, it is loaded in favor of the bullfighter. Last week, as the new season opened in Mexico City, the gringos had reason to believe they might have been right. President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines had decided that the drama needed some editing; he decreed 98 changes in the bullfighting code, designed to give the bulls a better break and to take some of the histrionics out of the bullfighters...
...effigy. Shrouded in bedsheet hoods, hundreds of students swarmed across the campus chanting, "Burn McCarthy!" and "Down with Joe!" After the dummy guest of honor had been hanged from a scaffold and put to the torch, speakers denounced McCarthy's "terror tactics." An outgrowth of days of bull sessions on "McCarthyism." the demonstration evoked mixed reactions even on the campus. When the student newspaper Varsity took a favorable stand. News Editor Paul Bacon resigned, commenting: "I dislike Communism to the extent that I feel any measures directed against its destruction are fair." Varsity insisted: "The burning succeeded...
Died. Major General Innis Palmer ("Bull") Swift, 71, oldtime Army cavalryman who during World War II trained and led the crack ist Cavalry Division in the Southwest Pacific (New Guinea, the Admiralty Islands), later commanded the Sixth Army's I Corps in the liberation of the Philippines; of a heart ailment; in San Antonio...
Albert H. Gordon will speak to the Bull and Bear Club today at 4:15 p.m. on "The Role of Investment Banking." Mr. Gordon is a partner in Kidder, Peabody, and Co., a leading investment banking firm. Gordon was one of the defense witnesses called in the recent investment banking anti-trust case. The meeting is open to all students and will be held in Langdell South Middle at the Law School...
...compared it to the present situation," where religious questions, which once would have been laughed at, are seriously discussed in "bull sessions...