Word: bulled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early in January, in Caracas, a bull drove a horn into Dominguín's upper right thigh, almost severing the big muscle in front of the bone. The wound, his eighth and worst, required an operation, performed in Mexico. Last week, still convalescing, he prepared to open the season in Bogotá. Over breakfast with a few friends, he mused, "I once loved bullfighting like madness. Now I've lost the joy of fighting. That's when fatal things happen. Today I'll make twelve, thirteen, fourteen thousand dollars-but it doesn't seem...
...that "if Freshmen spent the four or five days their instructors say a typical G.E. theme needs, they would be pouring a third of their first year into papers alone." You also recommend fewer papers and higher marking standards "so that the five hour wonders could not continue to bull their way to B's. Since the former statement suggests that the requirements are too severe, and the latter that they are nor severe enough, we are somewhat in doubt as to which side you take. But apart from this point, neither statement seems to be based on any careful...
Kenya last week was like Dakota Territory in the days of Sitting Bull (floruit 1876). Painted savages chanted bloodcurdling oaths, swooped down on lonely farmsteads to burn and scalp. The white settlers and their wives ate and slept with pistols at their sides; their vigilante posses, using native trackers, were supported by a battalion of British regulars, rushed to Kenya to face the same kind of tribal uprising that the U.S. cavalry crushed in the Old West...
Died. Roy Orchard Woodruff, 76, longtime (1913-15, 1921-52) Republican Congressman from Michigan who entered the House as a winner on Theodore Roosevelt's Bull Moose ticket, was a conservative shaper of G.O.P. policy during 14 years as chairman of the House Republican Conference; after long illness; in Washington...
...unshackled is not interested in peace. A man whose passions run so high he strikes natives in his anger at the sea is not concerned with reason. A man who sets out to battle demons of the deep which out-weigh and outwit him, with only his wife and bull-dog for company, cares little for security. He is an adventurer, and his tale is one of adventure...