Word: bulled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...entangled in Asia, plunge into World War III. London's House of Commons, apparently in full agreement with the British government's policy of appeasement of the Chinese Reds, cheered when Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison broke the news. Cried the News Chronicle: "Mr. Truman has taken the bull by the horns and pushed him out of the china shop...
...Give 'Itler 'Ell!" was Ernie's motto when he joined Winston Churchill in the Coalition Cabinet in 1940. Like Winnie, but in his own Socialist way, Ernie seemed a reincarnation of John Bull. When Schoolmaster Attlee's Socialism supplanted Aristocrat Churchill's Toryism, it was Ernie rather than any of his more doctrinaire colleagues who symbolized Britain's New Order. But after he became Foreign Secretary, Bevin roared: "Everyone is expecting me to change our policy. They forget that facts never change...
...more than a month, Wall Street's bulls & bears have been casting their horoscopes to see which way the stock market was headed. After hitting its bull-market high of 255.71 on the Dow-Jones industrial average in February, the market sagged off to a low of 243.95 in mid-March. But when jubilant bears began looking for the kill the market, contrarily, rose...
...three days the stock market soared more than six points. At week's end it broke through February's old peak and set a new bull-market high...
...Brave Bulls (Columbia) is Producer-Director Robert (All the King's Men) Rossen's ambitious attempt to put Tom Lea's bestselling 1949 novel on the screen. Visually, the picture is thick with the hot, dusty atmosphere of the bull ring and the Mexican locale in which it nourishes. But beneath its colorful surface, the film is dramatically weak and confused...