Word: bulled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Poised and slim in her sober, untinseled bullfighter's costume, blonde Patricia McCormick flashed her scarlet cape at the second of her two bulls. The first had been tame and lackluster. The crowd at the Juárez bull ring knew that if the first U.S. professional torera's debut was to be a success, this fight had better be good...
Dedicating the bull to her mother, the 22-year-old Texas girl took bold command. Four times she drew the bull's charges in neat pases naturales, once so narrowly that blood from his flank streaked her tight-fitting pants. "Ole, huera! [Nice going, blondie!]," yelled the crowd. Then Pat executed a series of gaoneras (passes in which the muleta is held with one hand outstretched, the other behind the back). On one rush a horn grazed and jarred her. The fans yelled as they had not yelled since the great Manolete fought years ago in Juarez...
...only reason the Harrison Williamses don't live like princes," observed a Manhattan wag during 1929's golden bull market, "is that princes can't afford to live like the Harrison Williamses...
...boom. By 1924, with a total investment of $2,072,000, he had won 96% control of the great Central States Electric Corp. combine, and with it reared a pyramid of utilities topped by his fabulous North American holding company. The great expansion of the nation and the big bull market boomed his companies. Between 1924 and 1929, Central States stock was split 60-fold. Although North American's earnings had risen only from $3.86 a share to $4.82, the value of its outstanding stock had shot from $26 million to $480 million. Williams ruled one-sixth...
Chief Tall Bull crashed to the ground, shot dead as a doornail by Major Frank North of the Pawnee scouts. Little did the poor Indian know that in biting the. dust he was launching a literary fad, and that it would change the lives of half the boys in the civilized world. For hot on the heels of North's bullet rode Ned Buntline, the famed dime novelist, all agog to plump Tall Bull's slayer into one of his thrillers. North, a simple soldier, refused to be blown up into a "paperback hero." "If you want...