Word: bulled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...portioned equally among pistols of three calibers (.22, .38, .45), each marksman must blaze away in tests of slow fire (one shot a minute), timed fire (five shots in 20 seconds) and rapid fire (five shots in ten seconds). Target distances range from 25 to 50 yards. With each bull's-eye counting ten points, a total score of 2,700 is possible-but fantastically improbable. In some 50 years of National pistol contests, only nine men have ever shot 2,600 points or better. Seven of them have turned the trick only once...
...drops. Some of the bears were old familiar fellows, such as Broker John H. Lewis, one of the few prophets who correctly foretold the onset of the 1946 bear market (which lasted until 1949), and who has been growling gloomily ever since. But there were also plenty of ex-bulls behind the trees. Everybody was asking: Has the great, postwar bull market finally come...
...veteran trader thought the Dow-Jones index was a slowpoke compared to what many individual groups of stocks had already done. Said E. F. Hutton's Gerald M. Loeb: "The bull market really ended quite a while ago as far as the majority of stocks is concerned." He pointed out that gold stocks as a group have never topped their peak of November 1949. The soft drink and brewing group reached its high in January 1950; a year later, copper stocks, retail stores and steels reached theirs. Two years ago the ethical drug stocks reached their top, followed within...
Catholics, Democrats and Christians were out. So were the Socialists and the Masjumi (Moslem) Party, the nation's largest; both have been moderately sympathetic to the West. Solidly in were left-wing Nationalists and a few obscure parties of the left-wing bloc. Bull-necked Marxist Iwa Kusumasumantri, jailed in 1946 for his part in the Communist Tan Malaka rebellion, was named Minister of Defense. The new Justice Minister has attended Communist peace rallies; the new Foreign Secretary signed the Stockholm peace appeal. Pro-Communists held the Ministries of Finance and Education...
...scene switches to Mount Olympus, where Jupiter is having trouble with his wife Juno. She berates him for his old trick of assuming the shape of a shepherd, a bull or a swan for purposes of dalliance ("Though the girls are squeezable," leers Cupid, "with a swan it isn't feasible"). Jupiter (well sung and acted by Baritone Ralph Herbert) takes Juno and the other gods on a junket to Hades, where they bump into Eurydice; after a few random shots from Cupid's bow, everything ends in a happy shambles. The "go-to-hell" joke is worked...