Word: bulled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spectacular, and he has made the most of it. He shipped overseas as an intelligence officer with a scout-bombing squadron. Nearly ten years older than most of his squadron, "Father Mac" was very popular, always scrounging beer and extra food for his unit, organizing sports, starting bull sessions. Joe volunteered to defend enlisted men, and boasts of how many courts-martial he beat for his clients...
...Wall Street Bull picture [TIME, Sept. 24] is unfair, misleading. It indicates that the bull is fearsome, dangerous. Not so. A bull is dangerous or not, according to his horns. Without fighting horns, he is not a fighter . . . The bull shown in your picture has a badly bent horn. He can't fight. Have no fear of him. He couldn't scare a Jersey heifer...
...Highway in the Sky (20th Century-Fox) puts James Stewart into the familiar role of a lovably naive eccentric who wages a one-man rebellion against bull-headed officialdom. Director Henry Koster freshens this foolproof formula with suspense and humor, casts Marlene Dietrich in no less foolproof a role as a glamorous movie queen, and surrounds his stars with a talented cast recruited in Britain, where the movie was filmed from a novel by Nevil Shute...
Even now, in what sounds like an echo from an old Greenwich Village bull session, he believes that "the whole aim of the gang that runs Russia, U.S.A., Britain and France is to destroy the contemplative life altogether." Short on formal education (he went to medical school straight from high school), he has tried to make a virtue of the literary amateurism that still keeps cropping up in the careless writing of Autobiography...
...underpriced, unreflective lot who do their jobs without self-dramatization, the players earn considerable respect and sympathy in the course of the picture, and the football scenes are authentic and very exciting. But always before the gridiron can begin to assume the romance or tragedy of, say, a bull-ring, the camera turns to the poisonous growths on the sidelines: the coach with the one-track mind and the rich, prestige-hungry alumnus who acts as "benefactor" to the deserving poor...