Word: bulled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fans who made their way to the Bogota bull ring one day last week to see a Mexican troupe of women bullfighters looked forward to nothing more than a mildly diverting afternoon of watching prudent girls avoid listless bulls. Actually, they were privileged to witness one of the high comic moments of Bogota's bullfight history...
...British Commonwealth makes frequent and often valid distinctions between being anti-Communist and pro-American. Last week in London, convinced that the U.S. had a bull by the tail in Korea, the Commonwealth Prime Ministers tried frantically to wiggle themselves, the U.N. and the Americans out of the pasture. The Korean problems on the Commonwealth agenda crowded out defense talks, trade negotiations, even the bitter India v. Pakistan dispute over Kashmir...
...acting hastily: "Wal air, I once knew a feller bought up a couple of Jersey cows and turned 'em out to pasture. Came back a year later and found no calves had been borned. Turned out he acted kinda hasty and hadn't got a bull...
There was certainly a lot of 1929's heady, champagne flavor about the U.S. in 1950, right down to the biggest bull market in 20 years. Gold-Digger Lorelei Lee was a reigning musical-comedy queen; F. Scott Fitzgerald had not only been enthusiastically revived, but was the hero of a novel that led the bestseller lists. Nightclubs were jammed, theater tickets occasionally went for $50 apiece, and useless luxuries-men's garters trimmed in 14-carat gold, mink scarves for three-year-olds, diamond-studded car keys-were salable items again. In an offhand manner, a Houston...
Business as Usual. The news from Korea knocked the bull market to its knees. Wall Street traders, well aware that war always disrupts business, sold stocks in such a frenzy that the Dow-Jones industrial average fell 17.63 points in four days. But in retail and wholesale markets, the cry was "Buy!" With memories of World War II shortages still fresh, housewives stampeded the nylon counters, grabbed for sheets, towels, soap, sugar, and everything else that had been short only a few years ago. In cities like Dallas and San Francisco, department store sales rose more than 40% over...