Word: bulled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...show was the portrait of Oklahoma Governor Roy Turner's great Hereford bull, the late Hazford Rupert 81st, which sired $1,000,000 worth of calves. He was, Lea recalled, "a most distinguished, gentlemanly and cordial old bull. He tipped the scales at 1,850 pounds, liked to have his back scratched, and was gentle as a house dog . . . He stood for his portrait not only with dignity but with the skill of an experienced and much interviewed public figure. He was pleasanter and far more interesting than many human portrait subjects I have...
Down the Cow. As gusty as he is lusty, Peirce talks a high, nasal torrent, mixing gamy reminiscences of the good old days with whatever notions happen to float through his head. At one moment he remembers persuading Hemingway to fight a bull in Spain while Peirce stood by with his Kodak to record the scene for posterity: "Only it was a cow. He damn near got killed, and then I found out there was something wrong with the camera-no picture." At the next moment, his mind still running to Hemingway, he offers a literary pronouncement: "Four-letter words...
After weeks of indecisive pawing & snorting, Wall Street's bull market this week jumped over the fence. Prodded by fat earnings, generous dividends and a spate of stock splits (General Motors, Philco, Container Corp. and a rumored split by Chrysler), stocks went bouncing up in the opening session this week. The Dow-Jones industrial average reached 228.94, thus breaking through the previous bull market high of last June and climbing to the highest point since September 1930.* Railroad stocks, which had been pacing recent market advances, also rose; their Dow-Jones index was the highest since August...
...Highest point of the 1929 bull market...
...appearance of the year will be his first as a starter. While surpassing Giant Ace Adams pre-Mexico record of 70 relief performances, Jim won 16, lost seven, and became the odds-on favorite for the league's Most Valuable Player. But before Sawyer deposited him permanently in the bull-pen, Konstanty was, generously speaking...