Word: bulled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pulled up at Eighth Army headquarters, U.N. Commander Mark Clark and the Eighth Army's James Van Fleet stepped out of the shadows for a handshake and an old friends' greeting. Then they hustled Ike inside for a turkey sandwich, a cup of hot chocolate and a bull session...
...rising stock market has been twice depicted, first with the baby bull ("Wall Street was nursing a baby bull, and a lot of cow-eyed mother love was suddenly loose in the land"), then with a 'rampaging bull two years later (June 14, 1948; June 5, 1950). Another cover symbolized Coca-Cola's postwar conquests as dozens of new Coke bottlers opened plants around the globe ("As Cokemen surveyed their empire, on which the sun never sets, their blood almost audibly fizzed with pride...
...opens with a bloody battle and ends with a more personalized duel between the hero and four menacing savages. Between the two extremes of the movie Power spends the rest of his time looking sternly at the Indians, refusing to lot them bluff him, and smoking several sacks of Bull Durham in a succession of pow-wows...
...temper to match. He flared back: "Americans have more guts in their little fingers than the rest of the world put together!" To make good his boast, Brooklyn-born Sidney Franklin had to learn enough about bullfight technique to get through a face-saving appearance with yearling bulls at a rancho in the country. That was back in 1922, and with time off for wars, revolutions and surgical operations, Franklin, the only American ever to become a topflight matador, has been in or around bull rings ever since...
...away from the literary tea set. He was in Spain making his debut as a teacher of young bullfighters, in the small (pop. 18,000) Andalusian city of Alcalá de Guadaira, eight miles from the famed bullfight center of Seville. Franklin had patched up the local bull ring, unused for 25 years, with $6,000 of his own money to provide an arena for his school...