Word: bulled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Truman circled the exhibit, inspected five bird paintings, drew up short before a placid brown & white bull. He was never aware, said Harry Truman pleasantly, that Audubon ever painted such a beast...
...right to his mild surprise. As well-versed Audubon fans know, the painter devoted his later years to an ambitious series entitled Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. But Audubon did not include his brown & white bull in Quadrupeds. Other four-legged creatures among the Hallstrom pictures are weasels, snow rabbits, a stoat...
Beef Rollback. In Mount Gambier, Australia, Grandfather George Uphill, 60, attacked by a 900-lb. bull, took it by the horns and broke its neck...
...Wall Street thought far too high. RCA profits continued to soar. In 1929, the company that had hesitated to spend $2,000 on Sarnoff's music box grossed $176,500,000 as a result of it, netted $15.8 million, and was one of the sensations of the big bull market...
Collector's Items. Modesty, false or otherwise, does not disguise Sarnoff's power and success. His chill blue eyes shine with impatient energy, his boyish, scrubbed-pink face radiates cockiness. All 5 feet 5 inches of his bullnecked, bull-chested figure bristles with authority and assurance. He dresses with conservative, expensive elegance, even carries a gold frame to hold matchbooks...