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Word: bulled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...barroom lingo. I was talking to myself, not to all who would listen, though certainly into my cups." According to Critic Williams, Grand Trouper Bankhead magnificently steered Streetcar back on the track after that. "To me she brought to mind the return of some great matador to the bull ring in Madrid, for the first time after having been almost fatally gored, and facing his most dangerous bull with his finest valor . . . When the play was finished [on its Manhattan opening night] I rushed up to her and fell to my knees at her feet . . . Such an experience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 12, 1956 | 3/12/1956 | See Source »

...hero, Tom Claiborne, is a burnt-out Southern poet who keeps trying to fire up the clinkers of his talent with alcohol. His wife Vera is a moneybags and a ninny with whom he has been out of love for a decade or more. While Vera breeds Red Poll bulls on their Bucks County, Pa., farm, Tom holds a running bull session with, 1) the spirit of his rakehell father, 2) the voice of his moral and artistic conscience (it speaks in italics), 3) the bittersweet memories of expatriate days centering around a Dionysian, suicide-bent poet named Home Watts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ode to the Expatriate Dead | 3/12/1956 | See Source »

Paul G. O'Leary--Dudley House; Vice-Chairman, Inter-House Debate Council; Treasurer, Dudley House Committee; House Athletics; Bull and Bear Club, Law Sch.; P.B.H...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Elections for '56 Permanent Class Committee Start Today | 3/12/1956 | See Source »

...ecclesiastical anger cracked last week around the ears of Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, Colombia's Roman Catholic President. It was set off by the Lenten pastoral letter of Crisanto Cardinal Luque, couched in the measured terms of churchly tradition, yet unmistakably a cry of cold indignation against the recent bull ring massacre (TIME, Feb. 20) in which Rojas' political opponents were maimed and killed by government thugs for having booed his daughter at the bullfights the week before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLOMBIA: Rebuke from the Church | 3/5/1956 | See Source »

...week, the 1,390 stocks on the New York Stock Exchange had increased several billion dollars in value, climbed to within twelve points of the all time bull-market peak reached at year's end. And Wall Street was confidently predicting that if and when Ike actually says yes, the market will go up some more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Fast Pulse | 2/27/1956 | See Source »

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