Word: bulled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from across the ocean. R. S. "Sandy" MacDonald of Cambridge University stated that the English teams would be glad to pay their own way across this year. All was happy for a brief space, although American track men may have felt a bit miffed at a vision of John Bull, in scuffed spikes and moth-eaten persey, running against well-fed and well-outfitted local collegians...
...most of it. In 1913 he signed with the New York Giants as an outfielder, played off and on in the National League until 1919. But it was as a pro footballer that Jim made his fame, if not his fortune. A longtime star of the Canton (Ohio) Bull Dogs, he ended his playing days in 1929, a tough old man of 41. Knute Rockne liked to recall one pro game against Thorpe. Playing end, Rockne twice crashed through the blocking backs and dumped Jim for a loss. "Rock," said Jim, "do you see all those people in the stands...
Osborn draws a fat club member with the tight emptiness of a blown-up sheep bladder, a paranoiac as a jungle of harsh lines straining inside a box. And his captions have the impact of an uppercut. A black Spanish bull glowers from one page with this thought for the matador: "Now the bull is looking at you with intent to kill and all that is required of you is to go in over the horns...
...lived his subject, Author Eyster steers the Dreher's crew through training and up the long ladder of South Pacific victory, from New Ireland to New Guinea, from the Solomons to the Carolines, from the Marianas to the Philippines. Between actions, in endless and high-flown bull sessions, he tries to solve the riddle of human personality as it clashes and cleaves in wartime. He does better when he gets away from the Dreher and its talky crew. He has watched the sea closely and when he keeps a bridle on his metaphors, he writes about it well...
...Bull...