Word: bulled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...geographer from the University of Chicago. Theses will be keyed to the U.S.S.R., e.g., Azrael's comparative study of industrialization's social effects in Russia and the U.S. University officials have promised complete freedom of study, and the Americans have been warmly accepted socially. In one friendly bull session, a U.S. economist had even tried to convince a horrified Soviet wrestling champ that Americans do not really hold maul-and-maim contests in which the object is to kill one's opponent...
...came grizzled old Casey to talk with his pitcher. Casey decided to stay with Duren but when Brave Joe Adcock pumped a single to center, moving the potential tying run to third base, Stengel summoned Bob Turley from the Yankee bull pen. Turley had to face Frank Torre, a left-handed batter hitting for Del Crandall...
...drives for a touchdown. As a stadium crowd of 6,000 looked on in alternating drizzle and downpour, Buffalo's Nick Bottini blocked a punt by Bruce Maclntyre on the Harvard 2, pounced on the ball, and rolled to an easy touchdown. Despite a last-minute drive to the Bull's goal line, the Crimson lost 6 to 3, giving the visitors revenge for a 66-0 drubbing...
...only a shade under the alltime high of 52.18. On the other hand, the New York Times index, at 556.67, still had a good way to go to its 590.96. Moreover, the averages are heavily weighted in favor of leading blue chips, most of which have risen in the bull market. Thus they do not show that many another stock has declined. Some 40% of all stocks that were listed on the exchange in 1946-especially airlines, textiles and railroad equipment-are actually lower now than their 1946 peaks...
NABOKOV'S DOZEN, by Vladimir Nabokov (214 pp.; Doubleday; $3.50), follows Lolita, the cannon shot heard round the literary world (TIME, Sept. 1), and by comparison crackles sporadically like sniper fire. But since Nabokov is an accomplished literary marksman, these short stories are on target, and several are bull's-eyes. The targets are strikingly varied: a pair of Siamese twins, each of whom must be his brother's keeper; a frustrated lepidopterist; a White Russian general playing triple agent in the Paris of the '205. The unifying theme, if there is one, is that...