Word: bulled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scarcely in keeping with James. It has been staged as though Tallulah were in the presence of nothing but waxworks, while she herself performs as if completely surrounded by leopards. Turning a pastel into a circus poster, Tallulah, her personality crackling like a whip, her voice sounding like a bull fiddle, gurgles and snorts and snarls. It is all on occasion forceful, but in general it may well set a record for incongruity that only something like Mae West as Snow White...
Here he promised one of his new prefab schoolhouses, there money for a new road. He inspected a new irrigation dam on the Tarlac River, ordered the engineers to use bull carts as well as dump trucks to haul dirt-it would make work for the poor people in the barrios-and delivered his favorite speech: He didn't care what the politicians said about Ramon Magsaysay. They could call him stupid, uneducated, or whatever. He was interested only in the welfare of the poor people. That's why he spent more time seeing them than studying...
...Wall Street bond dealers the upturn ended, at least temporarily, one of the worst periods in bond-market history. Though bonds have never been an investment favorite because of their fixed interest rates, the big bull market had made them particularly unattractive. As stocks have upped dividend payments, the bond market has gone down...
...gopher realism-a western so relentlessly authentic that at times the script seems to have been written in smoke signals. One of the prairie schooners is a genuine survivor of the Colorado gold rush, the calumet used at the powwow is supposed to have been sucked by Sitting Bull himself. Producer Disney has even hired one of the world's leading experts in Indian sign language, fellow name of Iron Eyes Cody, to teach those studio Indians how to speak their lines. Nothing doing. After quite a few reels of furtive finger-wiggling, the hired Hiawathas simply quit...
...prepared?--this is the fault not of the system's theory, but of its practice. More exacting, more factual examinations, and at least one term paper in every non-scientific course, would certainly help eliminate the tendency to get by--and sometimes get by well--on what is called bull...