Word: bulled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...could not spare his present Vice Chancellor, Franz Bliicher. Next day Adenauer went down to a radio station to tape a speech for broadcasting later. Unaware that the tape recorder was already running as he chatted, Adenauer was heard confiding to his press chief: "Brentano is mad as a bull...
...Bull by the Horns. For 26 minutes the President belted away. Would he care to comment on Stevenson's claims that the G.O.P. is attempting to seize partisan credit for civil-rights progress-for example, in the armed forces? Ike would and did. Frequently using the pronoun "I," which he generally shuns, he spoke feelingly of his efforts to foster military desegregation during World War II. As far as he knew, Ike said, he was the first combat commander who ever incorporated Negroes into white units on the battlefield, and "they all got along together." Thus, when the Administration...
...nothing more than an occasional bad check!" What did his father have to say about Gregory's hello to arms? As far as Gregory knew, Papa hadn't even heard about it: "I hear he's in Spain, where they're going to dedicate a bull to him or something...
...FIELD OF VISION, by Wright Morris (251 pp.; Harcourt, Brace; $3.50), takes a handful of "Sears Roebuck Gothic" Midwesterners, sits them in the stands of a Mexican bull ring, and has them re-fight the few past moments of truth in their lives. What dies in the ring is flesh; what has already perished in the stands is hope, mind and spirit. Among the fatally gored spectators: an icy arch-mom, the "chaste virginal mother of three"; her husband, a man who has transferred what little emotional-venture capital he once had into 3% matrimonial bonds; their grandson, a mobile...
...three, a kiss that somehow set in motion for the woman and her future husband and children that secret civil war between Puritanism and passion, a war of the blood more openly and obviously dramatized by Author Morris in the spectacle of bloodless Americans watching the bloodfest of the bull ring. Always a novelist to watch, if not to cheer, Author Morris has also captured the poignance of the lonely in the gregarious accents of Midwest speech. At novel's end there is a fracas in the bull ring, and the boy with the Davy Crockett hat touches...